item details
NameBlack and white ostrich plume
Productioncirca 1916
Classificationfeathers
Materialsfeather
DimensionsOverall:
Registration NumberGH017585/1
Credit lineGift of the McCredie family, 2012
Overview
This feather is one of a number purchased by a WWI soldier, Percy Heenan, for his sweetheart, Martha Cranstoun, while he was en route for the Western Front in 1916. It was purchased in Cape Town, where New Zealand troopships stopped to take on supplies and fuel.