Blackfoot
Photographed by Harry Pollard
Copyright 1912
Nitzitapi, "Real Person" (Blackfoot) Chiefs earned the right to wear their war bonnets or headdresses by performing brave deeds. Feathers in their lances were especially marked or cut to symbolize different kinds of heroic acts.
Blackfoot
Photographed by Harry Pollard
Copyright 1912
Nitzitapi, "Real Person" (Blackfoot) Chiefs earned the right to wear their war bonnets or headdresses by performing brave deeds. Feathers in their lances were especially marked or cut to symbolize different kinds of heroic acts.