Remnants of a bird's feather

Made:
1890-1925
Remnants of a bird's feather (said to be red but now

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Remnants of a bird's feather (said to be red but now
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Remnants of a bird's feather (said to be red but now brownish-white), could only be worn by a great man who had killed 40 men, or by a powerful medicine man, Rhodesia, 1890-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657862
Materials:
feather, bird
Measurements:
length 95 mm
width 28 mm
type:
feather - material
credit:
Clarke, S.

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