The feathered headdress, however, was just one of several types of headgear traditionally worn by numerous tribal nations. And the headpiece chosen and the way it was worn depended on the ...

Women carried eagle feather fans. Men wore eagle feather headdresses that bounced back and forth as they danced. Leading the procession was a man wielding a staff topped with an eagle head. Behind him ...

And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly ... with the power of the tribal elders underpinned by a belief in their ability to lay curses on miscreants. As a result, they ...

(National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) For many Americans, the eagle feather headdress is a generic symbol of Native America indivisible from the narrative of the wild west and ...