Feather Collection (page 6)

Little Women - Christmas entertainments
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Christmas entertainments, in which the friends and family dress up and act out scenes from a romantic melodrama

Tibetan Music at the Scala Theatre
Tibetan musicians at the Scala Theatre, London, perform playing their traditional instruments in connection with the opening of Captain John Noels film of the Everest expedition. Date: 1924

Young Edwardian woman in large hat and mink coat
Young Edwardian woman in a large hat and mink coat. Date: circa 1908

Advert, The Bamboo Cycle Co Ltd
Advert for The Bamboo Cycle Co Ltd, Holborn Viaduct, London EC. 1897

Man of the San people, South Africa
Man of the San people (Housouana or Bushmen), South Africa. With bow, arrows, feather and belt. From Francois Le Vaillants Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa

Costumes of a chief and a youth of the Tlingit nation, Port des Francais (Lituya Bay), Northwest coast of America (Alaska)

Maori girl with feather in her hair and long earrings
Girl of New Zealand. Maori girl with feather in her hair and long earrings. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Woman meeting a portly dandy in a parlour with large mirror and sofa. Charmed to meet you! (What an oaf!) Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Jean Gabriel Scheffer

Natives of Hawaii (Sandwich Islands)
Kalaimanokahoowaha or Kanaina, chief with helmet and cloak made of feathers, and Poeta, his wife, in a feather lei necklace and beads in her hair

Tayadaneega, Mohawk chief and leader
Tayadaneega, Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1743-1807), Mohawk chief and leader. He wears a feather headdress, metal gorget, shirt, and chain earring

Plume offerings made at the shrine of Pai yat yamo, God of Music, Zuni nation. Chromolithograph by August Hoen from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Sword swallowers of the Ma tke Thlan nakwe, Great Fire Fraternity, Zuni nation. Lithograph by August Hoen from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington

Sword of the Thle wekwe, Sword Swallower Fraternity, Zuni nation. Chromolithograph by August Hoen from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1904

Men and corn maidens performing the Pleasure
Men and corn maidens in feather headdress performing the Pleasure Dance, Zuni nation. Lithograph after a painting by Mary Wright Gill from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of

Fashionable hats of 1788
Woman in large striped bonnet-hat over a gauze night cap, and woman in black felt hat with feather trim, ribbons and plumes

Marie d Hautefort, wife of Charles de Schomberg, 1616-1691
Marie d Hautefort, wife of Charles de Schomberg, favourite of Louis XIV, 1616-1691. She wears her hair in ringlets, a mantua dress in blue silk with lace collar and sleeves

Paula of Viguier, La Belle Paule, 1518-1610
Paula of Viguier, Paule de Viguier, La Belle Paule, renowned beauty of Toulouse, 1518-1610. She wears her hair tied back under a velvet cap with feather

Young woman in the era of King Francis I, 1515-1547. She wears a chaperon headdress that has the form of a bonnet, purple velvet dress with wide sleeves, pearl belt and peacock feather fan

Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, 1523-1574
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, daughter of King Francis I, 1523-1574. She wears a velvet cap, velvet dress with tight bodice, ruff collar, slashed sleeves, scarlet petticoat

Italian womens fashions, late 16th century
Woman of Genoa with bouquet A, woman of Pisa holding a feather fan B, and details of a pair of Venetian womans shoes in sheepskin C, D, E, F

Hawaiian chief and wife, and masked warriors in a canoe
Kalaimanokahoowaha or Kanaina, Hawaiian chief with helmet and cloak made of feathers, and Poeta, his wife, in a feather lei necklace and beads in her hair

Marquesas Islanders: woman in turban, and chief of Tahuata Island (Santa Christina) in headdress. Feather headdress 1, fringed necklace 2, 4, fan 3, and war mace 5

Natives of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Man and woman in hats with long pierced ear lobes. Couple rowing an outrigger canoe or vaka

Queen Purea of Tahiti surrendering to Tobias
Fictional depiction of Queen Purea (Oberea) offering a plantain leaf in surrender to sailors of the Dolphin, 1767. (Captain Samuel Wallis was too ill with scurvy to leave the ship so Tobias Furneaux)

Natives of Tonga (Friendly Islands). King Poulaho in feather headdress, man in gnatoo tappa cloth, Chief Ataongo Otago of Tongatapu Amsterdam Island with knife, woman with tattoos in gnatoo

Ornaments of the Native Americans of Virginia (Powhatan) worn in a dance: belts 1, 2, 3, girdle of Thevetia ahouai kernels 4, bead necklaces 5, 6, 7, feather headdresses 8, 9, apron 10 and shirt 11

Hunters of the Wayana (Guayana) people of Paraguay with spears and bows wearing feather headdresses. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

Costume of the late 15th century, from a scene of murder
Costume of the late 15th century from a scene of murder: men in skrimp doublets, padded shoulders, tight sleeves, hats with a single feather and high boots

Rear view of a womans chignon with two pigtails and four papoose curls called the Chancellor. Chignon a la Chanceliere. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle

Manchu mandarin and Miao mountaineer, China
Manchu mandarin in fur coat, beard and hat with peacock feather, and Miao mountaineer from southern China. (Sketched from the body of a man killed in the Opium Wars against the British)

Princes feather, Persicaria orientalis (Tall persicaria, Polygonum orientale). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1792

Magnificent feather duster, dead mans fingers
Magnificent feather duster, Sabellastarte magnifica 1, dead mans fingers, Alcyonium digitatum 2, and scrupocellaria, Scrupocellaria scruposa 3

Peacock worm, Sabella pavonina, and feather duster worm, Bispira volutacornis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Amaranthus species
Amaranth species 1, princes feather, Amaranthus hypochondriacus 2, love lies bleeding, Amaranthus caudatus 3, globe amaranth, Gomphrena globosa 4, and redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus 5

Gentlemen fencers in thrust and parry positions
Gentlemen fencers in the position of the outward parry with the nails upward or the Feather Parade and the outward thrust nails upward, or the Carte over the Arm

The Scarlet Macaw by Wilton Williams
An elegant lady with a feather fan and a macaw. Date: 1923

Medieval jousting tournament, Cornwall
A medieval jousting tournament taking place in Cornwall, with men in costume on horseback, galloping past each other, and spectators in the background. Date: circa 1980s

Fashion showcard, The Myra Velveteen. late 19th century

Scotsman with map of Scotland, pinpointing Pitlochry, Perthshire. Date: circa 1910s

Comic postcard, Three Cats -- No Ma am, We Aint Seen Your Birdie. Date: circa 1910

Silhouette, Christmas carol singers
Silhouette, Christmas carol Singers

Poster, Haddon Hall, light opera by Arthur Sullivan
Theatre poster, Haddon Hall, a light opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by Sydney Grundy, depicting the main female character, Dorothy Vernon

Pantomime poster, Dick Whittington and his cat, ten miles from London

Skene tartan. circa 1846

Menzies tartan. circa 1846

Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797-1856), English actress and opera singer, as Don Giovanni. circa 1820

Mackay tartan. circa 1846

MacGillivray tartan. circa 1846

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