This is an amazing circa 1950’s Blackfeet Piegan Beaded Split Buffalo / Bison horn headdress bonnet, collected from a Trading Post outside of the Glacier National Park at the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana; from a private Montana collection. The piece is comprised of Great American Bison / Buffalo thick parfleche rawhide sinew sewn hard bonnet cap covered in old red stroud trade clothe with a wide beaded brow band on buffalo Indian hide with a geometric and tipi design. There are two large Buffalo bull split horns sewn onto the bonnet with sinew that are further adorned with old wound glass trade beads and old hawk trading bells, there is a strand of old wound glass trade beads connecting the two horns. The entire top is covered in yellow / orange bird plume feathers and down the back a strand of old red stroud with four gaskets of buffalo parfleche rawhide with four Turkey feathers tied on at the center. The beadwork is on buffalo Indian hide are all glass trade seed beads showing colors of chalk white, blue, semi-transparent red, yellow and black. Provenance: Collected from a Trading Post at / near the Blackfoot / Blackfeet Indian Reservation outside of Glacier National Park; from a private Montana collection. Measures overall 18-inches wide by 11.5-inches high, cap is 8.5-inches deep and approx. 23-inches inside circumference head size.