head-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1851,0103.34
- Description
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Head-ornament made of a bundle of cassowary feathers (casuarius casuarius) attached to a wooden stick (caryota sp., fishtail palm tree) with fibre string (hibiscus tileaceus).
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 19 centimetres
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Width: 16 centimetres
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.109:
'34. Head ornament of cassowary feathers. Length 7 inches. From Redscar Point.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 20 Mar-23 Aug, Australian National Maritime Museum, Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world
- Condition
- Good.
Object frozen Sept. 2009
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Rattlesnake expedition of 1846-1850. Collected by Captain Owen Stanley in September 1849.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1851,0103.34