My next match-up discovery is an Arikara split horn bonnet, which probably belonged to a famous US scout Arikara Indian Strikes Two (1844 - 1922).

 

 

 

 

Apparently the bonnet is made of tight hide hood-like cap, covered with ermine fringes on front and top, and distinctive short ermine strips on both sides; large cattle horns decorated with horse hair on the tips and bundles of owl feathers at the base; at the back there is a narrow cloth trailer with a crest of select white eagle feathers alternating with 4 sections of red-dyied eagle feathers..

 

Strikes Two (aka Two Strikes) was born in 1844 at Fort Clark Villages. His father was Arikara Chief and his mother was Young-Woman-Village. His father's father was Holding Medicine, and his mother's father was Old Elk. His father's mother was People-They-Know-Her, and his mother's mother was Old-Woman-Mist. His mother died of cholera (1851) and his father died at Fort Berthold in 1901.

 

Strikes Two enlisted as scout for the US Army in 1872 and in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

 

Strikes Two was married in 1876 after his return from service, and his wife was still living with him after thirty-six years. He did not reenlist as a scout. Chief Scab-on-Eye was one of the agents at Fort Berthold and the scouts afterward saw him on Powder River as an officer of the infantry.

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