fringe;
head-dress
- Museum number
- Am1958,01.23.d
- Description
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Feather fringe from a composite feather headdress, made from a row of blue, green, black and orange feathers bound together. The whole headdress is formed of three feather fringes (b-d) tied onto a V-sectioned headband of plaited palm-leaf (a).
- Production date
- 1957 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 13 centimetres
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Width: 100 centimetres (including strings for tying on)
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Width: 52 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to Adrianna Russi, the feathers used in this fringe are probably from the papagaio and mutum birds.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1957: “Collected in Autumn 1957 (18-8-57 to 18-9-57)”.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1958,01.23.d
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 111
