It is unclear exactly how the headdress, made of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and more than 1,000 gold plaques, ended up in Austria, where it is on display at a museum in Vienna. Historians ...

A stunning eagle feather headdress that once belonged to Chief ... facilitated mining expeditions into the Black Hills. Once gold was discovered there, miners moved onto Sioux hunting grounds ...

The unique and carefully crafted headdress is made from the crown of a doe. The hair was removed and the hide was tanned. The ears have feather quills woven in them. Cedar bark was stuffed into the ...

And the feather headdresses are symbolic of one particularly important tradition, according to photographer Eric Lafforgue. 'The guys who wear feather headdresses have just been circumcised,' he ...