Feather band

Museum number:
1-9580
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.232
Description:
Old feather ornament, broken in several places, very long; similar to yellow-hammer quill headbands of rest of state, but darker feathers and with a smaller proportion of the feathers trimmed to the quill.
Donor:
Constance Goddard DuBois
Collection place:
Rincon, San Diego County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Diego; Rincon
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Collector:
Henry Paulson and Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-5001. Published: BAE Bulletin 78, Handbook of the Indians of California, pl. 58. "This rope is part of the same specimen of which the N.Y. Museum has the other half.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Feather band, accession number 1-9580, described as Old feather ornament, broken in several places, very long; similar to yellow-hammer quill headbands of rest of state, but darker feathers and with a smaller proportion of the feathers trimmed to the quill.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Feather band, accession number 1-9580, described as Old feather ornament, broken in several places, very long; similar to yellow-hammer quill headbands of rest of state, but darker feathers and with a smaller proportion of the feathers trimmed to the quill.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Feather band, accession number 1-9580, described as Old feather ornament, broken in several places, very long; similar to yellow-hammer quill headbands of rest of state, but darker feathers and with a smaller proportion of the feathers trimmed to the quill.

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