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Object Number 34-160-70/312.1
Display Title Lei, feather bundle
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Lei
Object Description Thick yellow feather lei made of the feathers of the 'o'o bird.
Inventory Description Feather fragment from lei, yellow, black and red, thread wrapped
Classification
  • Feather
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Dimensions Overall: 3.2 x 3 x 0.1 cm (1 1/4 x 1 3/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Capt. David Stearns (1852)
Intermediary Helen M. Libby (1934)

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