Feather cloaks have been used by several cultures. It constituted noble and royal attire in § Hawaii and other Polynesian regions. It is a mythical bird-skin object that imparts power of flight upon t
Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena in her cloak while using a kāhili.—Robert Dampier, 1825
Feather cape—Display at Keauhou, Hawaii
Gotlandic image stone believed to depict Odin in the form of an eagle (note the eagle's beard), Gunnlöð holding the Mead of Poetry, and Suttungr.―Stora Hammars III
Bronze statuette of yuren "feather-human" ―Unearthed from Chang'an city ruins from the Eastern Han dynasty.
Tennin, which may include Tenshi, Tennotsukai, Hiten and the specifically female version, the Tennyo, are a divine kind of spiritual beings found in Japanese Buddhism, the equivalent of angels. They w
Feather cloak
…Dream of the Red Chamber that the ladies Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai wore such "crane cloak". In Japan, there are also swan maiden type legends about a tennyo (天女 "heavenly woman") coming to the earthly world and having her feather garment or hagoromo (羽衣) stolen. This hagoromo is variously translated as…