natural objects; headdress (ceremonial artefacts & rank insignia)

Feathers to adorn a headdress with a plant fibre frame. The headdress would be set with a great number of white ahea (Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita) feathers at two sides of the crescent, with an empty space on top of the headdress on which two barega (Blyth’s Hornbill, Rhyticeros plicatus) feathers are flexibly mounted.

There are 21 feathers: 15 yellow-white cockatoo feathers, four red and black feathers, and two long hornbill feathers with part of the quill cut away to make them flexible. There are also two thin sticks with downy white feathers bound to the tips.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1982.8ii.2
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
feathers
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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