Monday, June 16, 2014

Indian Chief Marbleized Headdress

The Indian Chief is an interesting and beautiful PEZ dispenser from the early 1970's that I hope to include in my collection one day.  I'm drawn to the amazing marbleized / swirled colors in the headdress.

Per the Warman's PEZ Field Guide 2nd Edition by Shawn Peterson: "The swirled headdress combinations are virtually endless.  It is rumored that the plastic used to make the headdress was molded from the ground up and re-melted remains of unsold Make-a-Face dispensers.  CAUTION: watch out for reproductions!".  

On that note... if you are considering buying one then please read this PDF file first, which discusses how to identify fake Indian Chiefs, One-Eye Monsters, Ponies, and Mimic the Monkeys that originated from Hong Kong.

The photos below are from scouring Google and eBay along with contributions from Jeff Chanesman.  I cropped the photos to focus on the headdress and tried to group them by color the best I could.

My favorites are the ones with blues and greens, how about you?






Anders Christiansen














Jeff Chanesman














Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia


Anders Christiansen


Jeff Chanesman


David Welch


David Welch


David Welch


Rob Yarak (PEZmorized)


Rob Yarak (PEZmorized)


Rob Yarak (PEZmorized)












BEWARE: This one is a fake!


Anders Christiansen


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