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.
Photo courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division