File #251: "Hawaiian Feather Cape donated to the National Museum, DC by Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling"

Hawaiian Feather Cape donated to the National Museum, DC by Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling

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Hawaiian Feather Cape donated to the National Museum, DC by Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling

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Hawaiian Feather Cape

Description

From accession card: "Ground of red feathers of the Iiwi (Vestiaria coccinea) [a.k.a. 'i'iwi or Hawaiian Honeycreeper.]
Two centrally located crescents, one crescent under the neck, and a vertical crescent on each side of the front of yellow feathers of the Oo (Acrulocercus nobilis). Band of the same yellow feathers around the entire lower border. Upper border and the two front margins have the base color of the ground (red), alternating with tufts of black feathers.

Accompanying this cape is a cylindrical boa of yellow feathers or lei to be worn on the head [number for feather lei is E128386-1]. 23" long.

This is apparently the cape numbered 43 in Brigham's "Hawaiian Feather Work" (Bishop Mus. Mem. 1, p. 68 and fig. 84).

"Ahu'ula, feathered cape, olona fiber (Touchardia latifolia), feathers from 'i'iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) and 'o'o (Moho nobilis).

Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.

Cape on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2021.

Creator

Miss Elizabeth Dixon and Mrs. Clementine Dixon Welling loaned the cape and boa to the National Museum. Currently these items are in the Anthropology Collections at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 

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