Yellow feather hatband accessory worn by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Yellow 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 yellow, gray-brown, white, and yellow spotted black feathers with calamuses bound together with black tape. The yellow flower at the back of the bunch has a solid yellow calamus, rachis, barbs, and afterfeathers. In front of the yellow feather is a gray-brown feather with solid gray-brown rachis, barbs, and afterfeathers. A thinner feather is bound in front brown feather. It has gray and brown mottled rachis and barbs that extends slightly above the tops of the yellow and brown feathers. In the very front, near the taped wrapped base, is a fragment of a small, yellow spotted, dark brown feather. The spots are divided by yellow speckled circular patterns and there is a patch of yellow afterfeathers below.
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 tape
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 9/16 × 3 1/4 × 1/16 in. (6.5 × 8.3 × 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: A2015.273.1.24.6
- 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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