Plains style war bonnet, handcrafted from 26 carefully selected moxtavovetas primary wing feathers. The feather quills are reinforced with stiff rawhide loops, wrapped with red trade cloth patches ("firecrackers") and attached to the skull cap with a buckskin string, creating the bonnet's flared look. The feathers have grey fluff and pink hackle decoration at the base and their tips are accented with gypsum («coup dots»), pink hackle and green human hair tufts. At the front of the feather crown there is a focal plumage from antique rose hackles.

The skull cap is cut from a dark brown commercial felt hat. It has prolonged ear flaps and designed to be worn in an old-time fashion above forehead. The outer side of the cap is entirely covered with red linen fabric and decorated with long fringes recycled from a vintage ermine mantle. The browband is done in lazy stitch using seed beads and features conventional Plains style mountains design on a Cheyenne pink background.

In the rear portion of the war bonnet there is a stripped quill tipped with a pompon of antique rose fluffies, also underneath the crown feathers is tied a personal war medicine pouch.

The overall finish and attention to details renders this bonnet a completely believable replica and looks very good to me. Note the pictures and see if you agree. I finished it after more than several years in preparation and feathers gathering.