Feather Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Woman's feather head ornament. TWISTED AND BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD WITH SIX BUNDLES OF SPLIT BLACK FEATHERS OF THE MAN OF WAR BIRD. THE FEATHERS ARE BOUND TOGETHER IN BUNCHES BY A THIN VEGETABLE CORD. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: Published in "The Journal of the Polynesian Society" Special Issue: Polynesian Art: Histories and Meanings in Cultural Contexts. Volume 116, No. 2, June 2007. Pages 118-119.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pukarua Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3819-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Feathers
content: 13 cm