FMNH 272589.nosub[1]
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Description: AT mounted(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
Description: BT back(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
Description: Overall.Photographer: Karen Bean : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
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Description: feather cape(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
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Description: BT overall obversePhotographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
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Description: Feathered cloak, Pacific(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
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Description: installed at Museo Nacional de Antropologia case NV39Download fileScanner: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
Transcriber: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | Catalogue No. 272589 | ENT | Accession No. 2616 | Field Catalogue No. FC-5051 | Negative No. 97111 | Sub. Ind. No. 51-5 | General Provenience: Polynesia (Hawaii) | Where collected: | Where made: | Attribution: | Tribe: | People: | Culture: | Brief description: Feather cape | Detailed description: Cape of mostly yellow 'o'o (Moho nobilis) feathers with a large central crescent of red 'i'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) feathers and four small frontal semi-crescents of the same. Cervical and frontal border of red, yellow, and black feathers. | See reverse x | Dimensions (in cm.): | length: | width: *55.0 | height: @ 28.0 | circumference: | diameter: | *[ILLUSTRATION] | Fuller Collection: Purchased from Captain A.W.F. Fuller of London, England, in 1958 | Formerly in the J. Edge-Partington Collection and acquired by Fuller on March 7, 1913. [BACK] For references to and a sketch of this specimen, see W.T. Brigham, "Hawaiian Feather Work," Memoirs of the B.P. Bishop Museum, Vol. I, 1899, pp. 57, 79, 80 (Fig. 112 on p. 79 and No. 90 in Brigham's list of capes and cloaks). See also W.T. Brigham, "Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work," Memoirs of the B.P. Bishop Museum, Vol. I, No. 5, 1903, p. 13. | 272589Link to fileCreator: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 146 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958Catalog Number: 272589.nosub[1]Description: capeMaterials: feather; Hawaiʻi ʻoʻo, feather; ʻiʻiwi - Hawaiian scarlet honeycreeper, fiber stringCultural Attribution: HawaiianAccession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)Accession Year: 1958Other Numbers: FC 5051, 97111, 114732dCollector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. FullerEMu IRN: 1181449GUID: 990fd4aa-ea3d-430b-8ff8-9e577888c105Disclaimer: The Field Museum's online Anthropology Collections Database may contain cultural items and historical records that are culturally sensitive. Some records may also include offensive language. These records do not reflect the Field Museum's current viewpoint but rather the social attitudes and circumstances of the time period when items were collected or cataloged. Visitors to this site are also advised that some records may contain names, images, and recordings of deceased individuals and that some records document human remains.
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