head-net
- Museum number
- Oc1990,09.418
- Description
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Head-net, made from acrylic yarn and thick bands of marsupial fur arranged in horizontal stripes.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Width: 28.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Head-net (in the Wahgi language ‘peng kon’: ‘head netbag’) purchased in Mt. Hagen township market; head-net in the style of Pangia peoples in the Southern Highlands Province. For an account of the making of the collection of which this is part, see ‘Paradise: portraying the New Guinea Highlands’, by Michael O’Hanlon (British Museum Press, 1993).
Field collection no:564.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1990,09.418
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 564 (field collection number)