#frontlet

“This object would have been affixed to a cylindrical headdress. Made of gold sheet, it was cut into the shape of a supernatural figure with serrated octopus tentacles that terminate in catfish heads. The creature rests on two clawlike feet, depicted in low relief. Reportedly found at La Mina, in the Jequetepeque Valley, the frontlet is remarkably similar to an example illustrated on a ceramic vessel from Dos Cabezas.”

Star Carr Mesolithic Red and Roe Deer Frontlets, 9300 to 8500BCE, The Yorkshire Museum, York

19th century frontlet or tiara made of gilt metal and decorated with pastes to create the design of a peacock.

Courtesy: J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles 

“Haida frontlet plaques are as often round or oval as they are rectangular. The north coast frontlet embodies a complex cosmological message in which the dominant reference, conveyed both by the visual forms and by the materials used, relates to beings of the sea and the underworld. However, images of humans representing the middle world, and birds the upper world, are not excluded.” — CMH