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Hawaiian multi-colored feather lei with yellow silk ribbons at either end. The feathers on this lei lay flat and tight along the horizontal, with yellow, red and green bands of feathers. Tradtionally, the lei would have been worn by high-status - or ali'i - women.
necklaces
feather (material)
Necklace
"Hawaiian Leis/from Honolulu 1920" and "Hawaiian Feather/Leis 1920" (2 white paper labels with red borders, handwritten)
Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Charitable Memorial Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3618
www.bishopmuseum.org/research/pdfs/cnsv-feathers.pdf Art Conservation Handout
Hawaii (United States)
Hawaii county (Hawaii) [county]
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