Chickasaw Beaded Cap

This hand-beaded cap, exhibited at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in Tuscumbia, belonged to Chickasaw leader George Colbert (c. 1764-1839). Colbert County was named for brothers George and Levi Colbert.

Hand-beaded cap of Chickasaw Chief George Colbert, now at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art
Photo courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Hand-beaded cap of Chickasaw Chief George Colbert, now at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art