Macaw feathers for headdress

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Object Number 10-58-30/82709

Display Title Macaw feathers for headdress

Descriptions

Inventory Description Long, brightly colored feathers, some mounted on sticks

Classification

Accessory

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Woyawoi

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

South America / British Guiana
South America / Guyana

Materials Feather, Wool, Vegetable fiber

Dimensions Overall: 69 x 4.5 cm (27 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Quantity 15

Label on object 82709

Provenance

Collector Rev. John W. Ogilvie (1910)

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