plume;
ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1937,1111.33
- Description
-
Head plume, ornament made of reddish feathers (bird of paradise?) bound to a wooden(?) stick with vegetable fibre.
- Production date
- 19thC(mid)-19thC(late) (before 1887)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 32 centimetres (approx)
- Curator's comments
- Circular metal rimmed handwritten British Museum label:
New Guinea / Papua
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Acquisition notes
- Collected in British New Guinea 1883-1886. Donor was the wife of the Rev Harry Scott of London Missionary Society
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1937,1111.33
