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Californian Flicker-Quill Headbands in the Light of an Ancient Colorado Cave Specimen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Gordon W. Hewes
Gordon W. Hewes*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Science, Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
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From mantles cave, in Dinosaur National Monument, in the northwestern corner of Colorado, Burgh and Scoggin (1948) report a buckskin pouch which contained a remarkably well preserved flicker-quill headband turned up with miniver. The similarity of this ancient ceremonial headdress, apart from its fur trimming, to the ethnographic flicker-quill headbands of California, raises a challenging culture-historical problem. The evidence suggests that the similarity may rest on cultural connections and that the flicker-quill headband may be an important key for the understanding of Californian-Great Basin relationships during the first millennium of this era.

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , October 1952 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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