I'd like to know how the tall black feather bonnets are put together. I'd especially like to see a series of photos or something illustrating the construction of these. Can anyone help? I'm not having much luck.

Also, Wikipedia says the development of the bonnets over time may have been influenced by the exposure of Highland regiments to the Indian feather bonnets. That, to me, is way off base. Although all Indians used feathers as ornamentation, only those of the Great Plains region of North America routinely used anything remotely similar to a bonnet. Plains Indian culture as we know it began to develop in the 1700s and didn't reach full fruition until about the time the Plains tribes were finally subjugated in the 1880s. I'm unaware of any Highland units ever having seen service on the Plains, either in what is now the United States, or in Canada. And Certainly, Highland regiments departed the US immediately on conclusion of our revolution, at a time before the "war bonnet" as it's often called, had fully developed. I don't see how Highlanders could have been influenced by American Indians. Just to cover one more base, feather bonnets, war bonnets, didn't get taken up by other tribes, outside the Plains region, much before the mid-20th Century, as the Pan Indian movement began to take hold.

What are your thoughts?