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Object Number 27-5-70/D3005.2
Display Title Kahili
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kahili
Object Description Kahili
Inventory Description Feathered staff, wood shaft, one end covered with white feather extensions, shaft wrapped with black rattan or skin, two bands of shell or bone along shaft at end and middle, feathers bound to shaft with white string, orange pigment on feathers at joint between feathers and shaft
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 124 × 19 × 18 cm (48 13/16 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D-3005
Provenance
Collector Mrs. Edward Tenney
Donor Mr. Edward Tenney (1927)

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