head-dress
- Museum number
- Oc1902,0603.3
- Description
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Men's head-dress, composed of three concentric rings of cane strips, oval in form, the innermost secured with thinner strips of cane making an openwork zigzag pattern; these strips are attached at the angles to the oval rings, by lashings of cane.
- Production date
- c.1880-1902
- Dimensions
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Height: 0.50 centimetres
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Width: 22.50 centimetres
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Depth: 19.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Acquisition notes
- Charles Woodford visited and resided in Solomon Islands between 1888 and 1914, first as a naturalist, later as the first British Resident Commissioner.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1902,0603.3