frame;
head-dress;
badge
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.39
- Description
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Large arch frame constructed from two curving rattans, one slightly smaller and placed below the other, bound together along vertical lengths with finely beaten barkcloth. Horizontally near apex, basket construction made of cane strips, with pale piece of cane tied to centre on one side with tangle of thin cane strips below. At top, two rattan prongs pass through arch and support w-shaped cane frame above, which is tightly wrapped with dark brown ?hibiscus fibre. Sections of main arching rattan decorated with lightly incised repeated triangles stained red; remaining frame stained black-brown. Some red colouration on rattan at apex.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.60 centimetres
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Length: 126 centimetres
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Width: 44.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 1906 register description:
Rattan head-ornament; double cane loop. Surmounted by forked ornament.
- 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
- Oc1906,1013.39
