FMNH 255979.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum subject code written in red] 51-29. | Provenance: Hawaii. | People or culture: Polynesian. | Name: Kahili: feather fly flapper. | Description: Plain wooden buggy whip handle; yellow feathers with brown tips; feathers wraped in red cloth; white feathers at base and top of plume. | Dimensions: Length 128cm. | Plume length: 55cm. | Collection: Presented by Mrs. L. Byron Nash, January 17, 1949. | [LEFT MARGIN] | A | 255978. | Location : Hall Case Room. [PR5 written in pencil] | Neg No. | Acc 2428. | [ILLUSTRATION] | [1 hand-drawing] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] | Hand-drawing of the staff in pencil. |
Catalog Number: 255979.nosub[1]
Description: staff
Materials: feather, wood, cloth
Cultural Attribution: Hawaiian
Accession Number: [2428] L. B. Nash (Gift)
Accession Year: 1949
Collector/Source: Mrs. L. B. Nash, Nash
EMu IRN: 1164169
GUID: 1908fa6c-7297-4752-a6bd-207f8d1b463c

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