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Lamanite Warrior Headdress The headpiece of a Lamanite Warrior costume set. It is a leather skullcap with some animal fur covering it and has two antlers affixed on top. In addition to this are leather weavings along the animal fur and leather strips hanging down its sides. The artifact itself is accompanied by a picture displaying Pageant actors who are wearing the full Lamanite Warrior costume set.
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King Benjamin Crown The crown was worn by King Benjamin in the old Pageant (1969–1987) play. King Benjamin was a character who asked for repentance for the actions. Benjamin's crown was made in 1977 by Gail Argetsinger, who made many of the other costumes in the collection. The crown is very worn, with threads sticking out and beads yellowing, showing its use. It has a large golden fabric braid that goes around the bottom edge. The majority of the crown is made up of intricate beading. The background of the beading is a lush dark purple fabric. On top of the braid in the middle of the hat are hundreds of beads intersecting and weaving through different paths to mimic a king's crown. The beads used are long, small, big (almost like a diamond), yellow circular, and fake pearl beads. The beads' designs make flowers and leaves that go around the full length of the hat. There is a non-braided, straight, large golden fabric that goes around the top brim of the hat. In a dome is a rich red fabric that makes up the top of the hat. It still feels soft and smooth today. In the center on top of the hat is a small donut-shaped golden fabric piece.
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Lamanite Priest Cape A colorful cape of green, blue, and yellow macramé cord. Designed to appear like a feather cape from a distance, this cape was originally created for the Lamanite priest in the old Pageant. It was since repurposed for the new Pageant as loot in the "Spoils of War" scene.
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Lamanite Dancer Cape This cape was word during the ceremonial battle dances by the Lamanites to emphasize the intent for war.
The Lamanite Dancer cape is made out of a rough, rope-like fabric. The colors vary, including black, blue, green, white, orange, and gold. There is a golden eagle located on the middle back area, and gold strings go horizontally through the blue and green-colored areas around the cape. The orange ball-like pieces and white split ends toward the bottom of the cape are to give the audience a vision of feathers from a distance. The colors blue and green on the cape were to add contrast to the “blur” effect for viewers at a distance. The front of the cape was open so the actor could put it on easily.
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Lamanite Princess Headdress (White Feathers) This headdress has gold beading designs (in a rounded shape and a line shape), with a black velvet half cap. The beading on the front is in a zigzag pattern, continues to the back, and is secured with a strap around the back of the head. There are white feathers with gold ribbon detailing, which is displayed as a half circle surrounding the head to represent a white or gold aura or halo effect, often seen in depictions of religious figures or people of royalty. There is a bird detail at the top of the front of the head which is made with a half-sheer soft black body with a gold background, silver thread detailing, a woven gold beak with shimmery red eyes and tongue, and silver leather curled feathers.
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Nephi the Disciple Costume for the role of Nephi the Disciple in the 1988 opening of the new Pageant.
The top tunic is a soft turquoise fabric with a less smooth black and bronze pattern encased by a black and white pattern that can be found on the front collar of the piece. Along the back collar of the top, there is a marking stating "3rd Ne."
The kilt is a soft caramel fabric with another similar pattern.
The cape has a more elaborate pattern using the same colors in the previous patterns.
The headpiece is a soft royal blue with suede loops.
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Lamanite Crowd Costume #4 Lamanite Crowd Costume (Red): Made for a Lamanite civilian, used in background of scenes with Lamanites. Consists of a hat and cloak, mostly red and gold with silver trim. The cloak has faux-fur trim and macrame feathers. The headpiece depicts a heavily stylized coyote, with highly reflective materials used throughout.
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Lamanite Priest Headdress A headdress with blue/black feathers towards the front and green towards the back. There's an emblem on the front that resembles a sunrise, and circular ear flaps hanging down from either side. Behind the feathers, there's a cone sticking out with braided macrame coming out of it, intended to flow down the back of the wearer. The front and rim are adorned with a shiny gold material. The feathers were likely replaced several times throughout the headdress's life, as opposed to the braided macrame, which was made to look like feathers from a distance, but was easier to clean and reuse. The Lamanites were one of the two warring tribes in the Book of Mormon, typically considered the "bad guys."
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Nephite Leather Headdress The Nephite leather headdress is made of worn brown leather with side ear straps and includes a light brown suede neck flap. The silver and gold decals along with the gold trim around the edges give a shine while performing on stage. This headdress was created for the new Pageant opening in 1988. Headdress such as these were to be worn by the Nephites, followers of Nephi, while engaging in battle with the Lamanites, the followers of Laman. These two groups loathed on another due to the hatred and betrayal of Nephi by his two brothers Laman and Lemuel. Both the Nephites and Lamanites continued to war against each other for centuries.
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Nephite Armor This resource consists of the various components that make up the armor of a follower of Nephi. Known as Nephites, this group serves as the protagonists of the Hill Cumorah Pageant. The armor consists of a dark red breastplate made of leather, with metal studs in a star-like formation surrounding two disks on the lower and upper half and along the outer neck piece. In addition, the costume comes with dark red boot spurs also with metal studs, and a dark brown leather kilt. Finally, there is a red cape which consists of black and white patterning.
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Lamanite Headpiece This headpiece was used by volunteers in the performance of the pageant. In the pageant, it was used as a piece for ceremonial and celebration reasons to lead up into a battle.
It is a helmet-like headpiece stylized to look like an eagle. It consists of gold and black fabric with red cotton ball eyes and a fluffy top piece. The beak is mostly gold with the rest of the helmet being black with gold threads to add texture to the piece. Below, there are black straps for the wearer's head to be placed and rested.
The first four and eighth photos were taken with the helmet on a stand. The first of the four taken with it facing right, second facing left, third facing towards the camera, fourth facing away from the camera, and the last from above.
The fifth and sixth images depict the helmet not on the stand facing right and left, respectively.
The seventh image depicts the helmet from below, where the performer's head will rest.
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Lamanite Crowd Cape and Headdress, Worn Over Tunic A cape and headdress depicting a Lamanite, intended to be worn by a crowd actor. Both the cape and headdress consist of unbraided red, black, and white macrame rope, which gives the cape a feather-like appearance and fur-like texture. The headdress has an effigy of a llama built into the forehead of the headdress, along with matching ears on the scalp. This effigy is made of silver and gold lamé and has an aesthetic reminiscent of Native American civilizations from Central America. The first picture shows the costume in its entirety.The second picture shows a side view of the headdress, complete with ears on the far left of the image in gold outline.The third picture shows braided macrame rope used to make the costume and hold it together.The fourth and fifth pictures show alternate views of the headdress and costume as a whole, respectively.
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Lehi's Robe, Sash, and Under-Tunic The first image is of a large cotton and wool purple robe with a textured golden lamé along the opening. It also has two large golden lamé-edged patches on both shoulders that run from front to back, the inner part of which contains gold and pink floral patterns on top of a black stripe. The patches have several golden frays on the lower ends. The arm openings are also lined with gold lamé. The chest area has a small oval-shaped brass plate that hangs off golden chains that are attached to the robe itself. The robe is pretty heavy as a result of all the lamé.
The second image is a zoomed-in photograph of one of the two shoulder patches, and the proceeding image is a zoomed-in photo of the brass plate.
The fourth image is of the sash, cotton, very long, and vertically striped with frayed ends. The stripes go in the following order: A wide strip of cyan, small strips of pink, black, white, yellow, cyan, maroon, indigo, pink, black, green, pink, blue, a wide stripe of black, small strips of blue, pink, green, black, pink, indigo, cyan, maroon, yellow, white, black, pink, wide strip of indigo, a small strip of pink, black, white, yellow, cyan, maroon, indigo, pink, black, green, pink, wide strip of mauve, a small strip of pink, green, black, pink, indigo, maroon, cyan, yellow, white, black, pink, and a wide strip of cyan.
The fifth and final image is of a large, plain, cotton, light blue under-tunic, which the performer wore underneath the robe. It is still inside a protective and transparent plastic laundry sleeve.
These items were made specifically to withstand rain, a common occurrence during shows.
Lehi wore these items during the Pageant's Old World scenes (~600 BC Jerusalem).
