head-dress
- Museum number
- Oc.6611
- Description
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Head ornament of feather plumes mounted on a wooden disk fringed with rattle seeds
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Dimensions
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Height: 56 centimetres
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Width: 26 centimetres
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Depth: 16 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads: From Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 1865
"Chiefs feather head-dress, made from the under feathers from the wings of the White Cockatoo, and some of the head feathers of a psittacus, with pendant seed ornaments attached." / No. 262 Brenchley Cat.
Three plumes which became detatched and were given 1980Q numbers, appear to belong to either Oc6610 or 6611, and they appear in separate photos here.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa around the Pacific, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum.
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6611
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6611 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 262 (Brenchley catalogue)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.213
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980,Q.369 (also registered as [now deleted])