Handcrafted from a combination of 16 select large turkey feathers realistically simulating immature eagle feathers and 16 dark brown moxtavovetas feathers, all being arranged as to form a dark cross in rear view.

The feathers are attached with stiff rawhide loops to the skull cap, loops being sewn to the feather quills and wrapped with linen thread. Red trade cloth patches («firecrackers») cover the base of each feather, secured with spiral linen thread wraps. Besides that the feathers are decorated with a white fluff at the base, and their tips have blue (on the white feathers) and yellow (on the dark ones) horsehair tassels accented with rectangular marks («coup dots») of white gypsum.

The foundation for the feather crown is a skull cap made from 2 pieces of German tanned hide sewn with real sinew, and competely covered with red trade cloth material. The gaps between the feathers are filled with highly coveted ermine fur fringes and are readily visible between the feathers.

The buckskin browband is decorated with flattened and dyed porcupine quills, featuring 4 red-blue-yellow triangles on a white background.

Each side of the war bonnet is decorated with 2 sinew-sewn ermine tubes with skunk fur tips and ribbons of natural silk.

In the middle of the crown there is a stripped Sun Dance quill («Major Plume»), tipped with nice yellow fluffs and surrounded with a cluster of cut-and-stripped feathers dyed blue and yellow.

In the rear portion is tied a pouch with a personal war medicine.