Cape

Museum number:
1-9579
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009579
Accession number:
Acc.232
Description:
An old eagle skirt, damaged, part of what the Digueno myth calls a "feather rope".
Donor:
Constance Goddard DuBois
Collection place:
Rincon, San Diego County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Diego; Rincon
Culture or time period:
Luiseño
Collector:
Constance Goddard DuBois
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Capes (outerwear)
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-2783. Published: BAE B. 78, Pl. 42. Remarks: " "An old eagle skirt, very ragged, and part of what the Diegueno myth calls a "feather rope," an almost prehistoric sort of featherwork....Examples of genuine workmanship of undoubted age." See letters by Miss DuBois of Aug. 12, Oct. 3, 1906.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (June 1, 1976–June 1, 1976)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 1-9579, described as An old eagle skirt, damaged, part of what the Digueno myth calls a "feather rope".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 1-9579, described as An old eagle skirt, damaged, part of what the Digueno myth calls a "feather rope".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 1-9579, described as An old eagle skirt, damaged, part of what the Digueno myth calls a "feather rope".

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