Gray-brown feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway
date: label: Date
content: mid 20th-late 20th century
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Worn by
content: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
notes: label: Description
content: A feather accessory for hatbands worn by Cab Calloway. The feather accessory is a small bundle of white, gray-brown, red, and white spotted black feathers with calamuses bound together with black tape. The trimmed white feather at the back has a white calamus, white rachis, white barbs, and white afterfeathers. The trimmed, fan-shaped feather stacked over the white feather has solid gray-brown barbs, afterfeathers, and a black rachis. Over the gray-brown feather is a thin, tall, red barbed feather with a red rachis that extends slightly above the top of the gray-brown feather. In the very front, near the taped wrapped base, is a fragment of a white speckled black feather. The white spots are mostly round with a couple of elliptical shaped ones down the center. The spots are divided by thin, light brown, lines that form a diamond pattern.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Band (Music)
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Conductors (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Cabell “Cab” Calloway III Collection
label: Classification
content: Jewelry and Adornment
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: A2015.273.1.24.3
objectType: label: Type
content: accessories
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: feather and pressure-sensitive tape
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1 15/16 × 3 3/8 × 1/16 in. (5 × 8.5 × 0.1 cm)