Headdress frontlet

Tsimshian , Native American artist · ca. 1820–40

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Chalk
45% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1

Smoke
21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Burnt sienna
16% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.9:1

Dark chocolate
14% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.6:1

Dusty rose
2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1

Celadon
2% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Tsimshian , Native American artist
Date: ca. 1820–40
Type: Decorative arts & sculpture
Medium: Wood, abalone shell, pigment, and nails
Size: 7 × 6 × 2 3/4 in. (17.8 × 15.2 × 7 cm)
Place: Canada
Period: 19th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 60, colourfulness 10

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Headdress frontlet

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