Feather Cape Or Pelerine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Aug 1990
label: Collection Date
content: Early 19th Century
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Sarah Goodmeade
label: Donor Name
content: Phoebe Flory
notes: label: Notes
content: MADE IN IMITATION OF HAWAIIAN FEATHER CAPES OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE FEATHERS ARE SEWN TO A BROWN COTTON CLOTH IN A DESIGN USING BLUE & GREEN PEACOCK FEATHERS, & GRAY, BROWN & WHITE GADWALL AND MALLARD DUCK AND FEMALE BLACK GROUSE FEATHERS TO FORM TWO BANDS OF ALTERNATING TRIANGLES. THE UNDERSIDE IS LINED WITH WHITE DOWN. TWO TABS FEATHERED IN THE SAME DESIGN, ARE ATTACHED AT THE ENDS OF THE CAPE, TO HANG DOWN THE FRONT WHEN THE CAPE IS WORN. FEATHERS IDENTIFIED BY ROXY LAYBOURNE NMNH DEPT. OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY). SEE "THE FEATHER CAPE ENIGMA: ENGLISH OR AMERICAN INDIAN?" BY ADRIENNE KAEPPLER, MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY 23(3):97-103. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Keefe, Anna Rose, "Forgotten Fashions: Feather Pelerines of the Nineteenth Century" (2016). Open Access Master's Theses. Paper 950. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/950
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: England (not certain), Europe (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: English (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361216
label: USNM Number
content: E425081-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 130 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 76 cm