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Object Number 11-65-70/84100
Display Title Feather cape
Descriptions
Indigenous Term 'Ahu'ula or Ahuli'i
Object Description Feather cape decorated with yellow and red feathers. Circular "classic" cape with red field decorated with yellow and black spots and a yellow border.
Inventory Description Cape, sewn red, yellow, and black feather dot and stripe design on netted fiber
Classification
  • Cape
Department Ethnographic
Date 1819 or earlier
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 107 x 82 cm (42 1/8 x 32 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 84100
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1911
Provenance
Owner Kamehameha I (prior to 1819)
Seller Mary Dorr Frost (1899 - 1911)
Owner Mrs. Henry Dorr (1850 - 1899)
Collector Mr. Henry Dorr (prior to 1819)

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