head-dress
- Museum number
- Am1900,1213.1
- Description
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Compound head-dress made of basketry, twilled (cane), externally lined with cut white, brown and orange feathers (tail), headband trimmed in fabric; four small pegs on top of headdress; associated wooden appendage in T shape with beetle (wings) pendants on ends and brass pendant in centre; four macaw feathers unattached.
- Production date
- 1800s
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 27 centimetres (main headdress)
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Height: 17 centimetres (main headdress)
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Height: 21 centimetres
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Length: 27 centimetres (associated piece)
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Length: 64 centimetres (feathers)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1900,1213.1