headdress

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Upright cassowary feather headdress ornament; conical base held together with dried earth paste covering rolled string binding. Metal nail through base. stage in growth of cassowary plumes

Accession number: 2013.2.118 Last Update: 8 Aug 2017
Common Name

Adornment

Other Name

kera taime

Place
Unknown
Accession Number

2013.2.118

Accession Date

31 Jan 2013

Other Id

56643 (ethnology)

33 (Bowers)

16554 (Asset Register)

Department

Pacific

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