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Kahu kiwi (Feather mantle or cape of kiwi bird feathers)
Image Not Available for Kahu kiwi (Feather mantle or cape of kiwi bird feathers)
Object Number 20-11-70/D1316
Display Title Kahu kiwi (Feather mantle or cape of kiwi bird feathers)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kahu kiwi
Inventory Description Cape, feathers on woven fiber base, brown with white and green border, fringed
Classification
  • Cape
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Maori
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand
Dimensions Overall: 132.5 × 15 × 34 cm (52 3/16 × 5 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.) Overall: 144.7803 × 147.3203 cm (57 × 58 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object D-1316
Provenance
Owner Dr. James McIntosh Bell (1920)

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