plume
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.952
- Description
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Length of rattan covered with cassowary feathers and secured with leaf fibre; feathers wrapped at centre and top with palm leaves. Squared rattan handle at base. Two small white feathers at lower and upper thirds.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.70 centimetres (handle)
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Length: 176 centimetres
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Width: 2.20 centimetres (leaf wrapping)
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Width: 7 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Provenance based upon style. 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
- Oc1906,1013.952
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1906,1013.951-952 (Previous group record)