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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: Monal pheasant tail feathers, the base of their shafts wrapped with cord to form a headdress.
label: Notes
content: A shaman named Sakrante is shown wearing the headdress 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.) The feather referenced in Box 43 "Sickel and Kukuri" Chapter 5.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E433302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress