Tribute Feathers
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: THERE ARE SIX BUNCHES OF BLACK AND YELLOW FEATHERS, SOME STILL ADHERING TO THE VEGETABLE FIBER TIES.THREE ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBERS STILL ADHERE, AND ALL HAD BEEN MOUNTED ON A WOODEN SQUARE - HAS "C. RINGGOLD" AND NUMBERS WRITTEN ON BACK. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAGS, "894", "895", "89-". AN OLD LABEL READS,"FEATHERS FROM THE HUNTER - SMALL TUFT OF THE VALUABLE YELLOW FEATHERS OF THE OO (ACRULOCERCUS NOBILIS), TO WHICH ARE ATTACHED THE LESS RARE FEATHERS OF THE IIWI (VESTYIARIA COCCINEA REICHENBACH)" [THE LAST IS INCORRECT]. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. THE FEATHERS CATALOGUED AS #3645 HAVE BECOME MIXED TOGETHER WITH THE FEATHERS CATALOGUED AS #3646 SO AS TO MAKE THEM IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE. THEY ARE NOW STORED TOGETHER. -- JANE WALSH, 1989.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3645-6. SMALL BUNDLES OF YELLOW AND BLACK FEATHERS OF THE OO (ACRULOCERCUS NOBILIS), SECURED TO FIBER CORD EXACTED AS A TRIBUTE FROM THE SUBJECTS OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGS IN THE DISTRICTS WHERE THE BIRDS ARE FOUND. THESE FEATHERS WERE VALUED HIGHLY AND WERE USED IN MAKING THE WAR CAPES WORN BY THE KINGS. IT REQUIRED MANY YEARS TO COMPLETE ONE OF THE WAR CAPES"
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Aug 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3645-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feather Tax
physicalDescription: label: Length - Mounted
content: 13 cm
label: Width - Mounted
content: 11 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 5 cm