Featherwork Painting
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Aug 1929
name: label: Collector
content: Louis H. Ayme
label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Charles F. Humphrey Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Stretched split skin of a bird mounted on cardboard and holding in its mouth a snake figure built up of down feathers. Beneath is a flag design in white, red, and green. As a background appears the "KATIPUNAN" [sic] or rising sun symbol. Featherwork design depicting eagle sitting on cactus, holding a serpent in its mouth - emblem of Mexico. Some of the feathers identified by Roxie Laybourne as belonging to a species of hummingbird found only in the New World. - D.W. [Deborah Wood] 1983."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mexican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 106507
label: USNM Number
content: E342398-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork