Feather (Pheasant?) Artifacts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jun 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1969
name: label: Collector
content: John T. Hitchcock
label: Donor Name
content: Catharine McClellan
notes: label: Notes
content: 3 sets of feathers/birds. (1) A headdress made from brown feathers, the base of their shafts wrapped with twine and attached together. (2) The body and wings of a black bird with irridescent blue and green wings. (3) Small brown bird with piece of twine around its neck.
label: Notes
content: A shaman named Sakrante is shown wearing the object for ceremonial use in film "Himalayan Shaman of Northern Nepal" (available at the Human Studies Film Archives, 2007.7.3) and in photos (National Anthropological Archives, Hitchcock Collection, Box 53 "Buji Khola Pictures" from 1967, and Box 80 Album D.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Oct 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Nepal, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Magar (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2032229
label: USNM Number
content: E433428-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ceremonial Object