Lei hulu (feather necklace)
- Object status:
- Deaccessioned
- Museum number:
- 11-14665
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110014665
- Accession number:
- Acc.2560
- Description:
- Lei of feathers; "composite lei" with alternating yellow and green bands; multicolor tufts; plaited green silk tie. Indigenous name: "lei pauku (lei of sections); "lei hula." "green ("Vini Kuhli" i.e. Fanning Id. lorikeet), yellow "o'o' " bird feathers; multicolor bird feathers; plaited silk
- Donor:
- Mrs. Gardner Dailey
- Collection place:
- Hawaiian Islands
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Hawaii
- Culture or time period:
- Hawaiian
- Collector:
- Gardner Dailey and Mrs. Gardner Dailey
- Collection date:
- 1970
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Plaited weaving
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Production date:
- ca. 1880
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Context of use:
- Formerly worn by the female aristocracy not only around neck but in the hair as well.
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- length 63 centimeters and length 77 centimeters
- Comment:
- Exhibited: "1978 Settlement of Polynesia" "Peter Buck, "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii
- Loans:
- S1987-1988 #10: Bowers Museum (August 1987–February 16, 1988)
- Legacy documentation:
-