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 ...

my cursory internet search for "Native American iconography" brought up feathers, headdresses, war paint, arrows and, to my ...

(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 ...