plume
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1502
- Description
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Plume of red-brown Bird-of-Paradise feathers (possibly Paradisaea raggiana) secured to tapering palmwood handle with leaf binding. Further leaf binding at base of plume, above handle.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1 centimetres (string/top of handle)
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Length: 66 centimetres
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Width: 12.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Findspot information from Heather Donoghue (PhD candidate, UEA) 22/08/18.
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Expedition label made by Dennison & Co. handwritten in pencil reads: 'Masingara'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.1502