Customs of dress and ceremony varied from group to group, but many Native Americans valued their headdresses which often served as identification. Other peoples have also been interested in Native American customs and artifacts. Sometimes the artifacts are returned to the original owners. At least one headdress belonging to the Blood Tribe of Southern Alberta, Canada, is not allowed to be displayed in public or photographed.

Click here for a web site about the Blood Tribe headdress found in a Scottish museum. Read the information, take some notes and return to this page to write about why you think the Blood Tribe does not want the headdress photographed.

Click here for a hint about how to find information quickly on a long web page. Look for the word earnt on the museum web page above. Write about what word you would probably have used instead of earnt.

Did you know that you can search on a web page without using a search engine? When you are reading a long page and you want to find a specific word or phrase, use the Edit item in the browser's menu at the very top of the browser window.

• First, click Edit and then select Find from the dropdown menu.

• Type in the word or phrase you need to locate.

• Click the Find or Find Next button.

• You may have to do this several times to locate the information you need, but using Find will help you get to the information more quickly than scrolling down a very long page.

• Try this strategy after you click the link to the museum with the Blood Tribe headdress. You will be looking for a word that is spelled differently in the country where the museum is even though it is still an English word.