Headdress in the style of a bearclaw headdress, except the "claws" are each carved from sheep horn. Two thick leather strips are stitched together at the ends to form a circular forehead strap. Attached to the strap are 24 long, curved "claws" sewn on at their proximal ends. Each is attached by a nail to a small square of horn. Their distal ends are blunted, and a small hole has been bored through each tip for cotton string to pass through. The string connects the horn claws to each other and to two large feather pieces (lower shafts), as well as to short leather thongs. Thin pieces of sinew are wrapped around the string. A piece of cotton is tied to each side, dropping down under the headdress where they are tied together.

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• Type of Item headdress
• Culture Gitxsan
• Material mountain sheep horn, leather skin, feather, cotton fibre, sinew, metal, ermine skin
• Measurements height 8.5 cm, width 23.0 cm, depth 27.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Barbara Robertson, Alexander C. Robertson
• Received from Alexander C. Robertson

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• Made in British Columbia
• Collected in Hazelton

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• Ownership Date before December 22, 2010, before February 19, 2014
• Acquisition Date on February 19, 2014

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 3051/0005