head-ornament
- Museum number
- As1913,1103.79
- Description
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Head ornament (worn together with head-dress As1913,1103.76) made of wood, beads, beetle (wing-sheath).
- Production date
- 1850s-1910
- Dimensions
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Height: 32 centimetres
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Weight: 55 grammes
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 2.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register says: "Bead & wingsheath pendants attacked to sticks, with project horizontally on either side at back of head, being stuck into the hair. Worn in combination with above headress As1913,1103.76, 77."
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In set with As1913,1103.76
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"The Chittagong Hill Tribes". E. Riebeck. transl. Prof Keane, Lon. 1885
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995-96, BM, Textiles of Highland Burma from the Ethnography Collections
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1913,1103.79