Red feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Red feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway: Date: mid 20th-late 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Worn by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
A feather accessory for hatbands worn by Cab Calloway. The feather accessory is a small bundle of black, red, yellow, and red spotted black feathers with calamuses bound together with black tape. The trimmed black feather at the back of the bunch has a solid black calamus, rachis, barbs, and afterfeathers. In front of the black feather is a trimmed red feather with solid red rachis, barbs, and afterfeathers. A thinner yellow, white, and black mottled feather is bound in front red feather that extends slightly above the tops of the red and black feathers. In the very front, near the taped wrapped base, is a fragment of a small, red spotted, black feather. The red spots are mostly round with one, upside down heart shaped spot at the center. The spots are divided by red speckled circular patterns.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: mid 20th-late 20th century
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Worn by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: accessories
- Medium: feather and pressure-sensitive tape
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 × 1/16 in. (5 × 8 × 0.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: A2015.273.1.24.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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