Feather Cape ('ahu 'ula) Maker: Unknown

before 1821

Indo-Pacific Art

Not on view
Medium

Featherwork

Dimensions

23 × 23 11/16 in. (58.4 × 60.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Harrison F. Bassett in memory of his wife Elizabeth Ives Bassett and her brother Arthur Noble Brown

Accession Number

1941.54

Geography

Made in Hawaii, United States

Culture

Hawaiian

Classification

Apparel/Costume

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Queen Kaahumanu of Hawaii (ca. 1772–1832); gift to Lucia Ruggles Holman (1793–1886), ca. 1821; on loan to the Bishop Museum, the University of Hawaii, 1918; by descent to Harrison F. and Elizabeth Ives Bassett; donated to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1941
Bibliography
  • James Prosek and Edith Devaney, James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2020), 26, pl. 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

capes (outerwear), clothing

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