Feather Plume
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: [referring to E2489 through E2492] One bundle is missing. Long wooden sticks, usually in pairs, tied together by vegetable fiber cord & covered with the feathers of the acorn woodpecker "melanerpes formicivorus." some have a base of calico cloth. Two specimens have a row of California quail topknot feathers, "lophortyx californicus." Exhibited Magnificent Voyagers, National Museum Of Natural History, 1985-86. Feathers identified by Phil Angle, Division Of Birds, U.S.N.M. original ledger identifies these bundles as "Klamath," this should be checked.
label: Notes
content: From card [referring to E2489 through E2492]: "Label on 2490 reads: "Dress ornament plumes, Klamath Indians, Oregon" original Wilkes numbers total 10 specimens. Old S.I. cat. book lists four numbers 2489-92. Wilkes calls them "bundles" and gives no exact number of each specimen. Nine (9) specimens were located, 1977. All consist of peeled sticks, usually in pairs, originally whitened, bound together by wrapping with cotton cord and/or vegetable fibre. All sticks are covered with feathers of the acorn woodpecker melanerpes formicivorus held in place by the cord wrapping. Two specimens #2489 have also a row of California quail topknot feathers lophortyx californicus. The nine (9) spec.have been numbered: 2489 = 2 specimens; 2490=4 specimens; 2491=2 specimens; 2492=1 specimen. Feather i.d. Phil Angle, Div. of Birds.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies these artifacts as "Plumes worn by the natives of California."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon Territory (not certain) / California (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2492-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 52 cm