FMNH 272589.nosub[1]

  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: AT mounted
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: BT back
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Overall.
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    Photographer: Karen Bean : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: feather cape
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: BT front
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: BT overall obverse
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Feathered cloak, Pacific
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Feather cape.
  • 272589 `ahu ula, feather cape
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: installed at Museo Nacional de Antropologia case NV39
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    Scanner: 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. | 272589
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    Creator: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: excerpt of conversations on Sonoband 146 between Roland Force and Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 1958
Catalog Number: 272589.nosub[1]
Description: cape
Materials: feather; Hawaiʻi ʻoʻo, feather; ʻiʻiwi - Hawaiian scarlet honeycreeper, fiber string
Cultural Attribution: Hawaiian
Accession Number: [2616] A. W. F. Fuller (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1958
Other Numbers: FC 5051, 97111, 114732d
Collector/Source: Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller, Captain Alfred W. F. Fuller
EMu IRN: 1181449
GUID: 990fd4aa-ea3d-430b-8ff8-9e577888c105

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