Feather Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Dec 1927
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Com U S N Lowell Cooper
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Fashioned from native bast (?) [probably flax] fiber twisted into two-ply cord which forms the transverse (active) element. The passive element is of the same material passing longitudinally at 1/2 inch intervals. Small tufts of chicken feathers are sewn at alternate intersections of the two elements forming longitudinal rows about 1 - 2 inches apart."
label: Notes
content: Kahu kiwi, Kiwi feather cloak. Kiwi feathers are in large central section of design, bordered on right and left sides by a double vertical band of alternating dark and light feather squares forming a check pattern.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Apr 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 099475
label: USNM Number
content: E339708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 112 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 120 cm