"When I see a non-Indigenous person wearing a headdress, it feels like my entire culture has been reduced to a prop, a costume." JJ Neepin is the director of Headdress, short documentary about the ...

Burmese, Indochinese, and Thai coins of small value are used too. This souvenir is a simplified and cheaper version of the traditional Akha headdress. It was made in the late twentieth century. The ...

Shaumonekusse was one of a number of Native dignitaries to meet with President James Monroe in Washington D.C. in 1821. Charles Bird King’s portrait depicts him wearing a headdress decorated with ...