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1923.85.345.4

Tail feather of the racket-tailed drongo, used as hair ornament. [El.B 06/06/2008]

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1923.85.345.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Tail feather of the racket-tailed drongo, used as hair ornament. [El.B 06/06/2008]
Long description
Five feathers 1923.85.345 .1-.5 are mounted together in a glass-fronted frame. [El.B 06/06/2008]
Geographical reference
India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Nagaland
Cultural groups
Naga
Person
Field collector John Henry Hutton
PRM source John Henry Hutton
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1924
Date collected
By 1924
Acquisition information
Donated: 1924
Materials and processes
Material Bird Feather
Dimensions
Length: max 400 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1923.85.345.4
Research and responses

Presumably this is the Racket-tailed Drongo (Dissemurus poradiseus) as mentioned in other entries. A drongo is any of 20 species of Old World woodland birds constituting the family Dicruridae (order Passeriformes). The tail of the Southeast Asian racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) bears 30-centimetre (12-inch) "wires", outer feathers that are unbranched for most of their length and carry rather large vanes at the ends. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 26/4/2001]

Search terms: Specimen, Animalia, Ornament, Bird Part, Head Ornament

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