Head ornament

Museum number:
16-109
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21160000109
Accession number:
Acc.121 and Acc.156
Description:
Head ornament of feathers: long feathers are from back of a heron (genus Ardea), Genus identified by Ned K. Johnson, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Oct. 19, 1964.
Donor:
Frederic Ward Putnam, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University), and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Paraguay
Verbatim coll. place:
Mataco, Paraguay
Culture or time period:
Wichí
Collector:
Emil Hassler
Collection date:
1887-1904
Taxon:
Ardea
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Head ornaments
Accession date:
1904
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Head ornament, accession number 16-109, described as Head ornament of feathers: long feathers are from back of a heron (genus Ardea), Genus identified by Ned K. Johnson, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Oct. 19, 1964.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Head ornament, accession number 16-109, described as Head ornament of feathers: long feathers are from back of a heron (genus Ardea), Genus identified by Ned K. Johnson, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Oct. 19, 1964.

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