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head, figurine

human history
  • Description

    Figurine head wearing a tiered feather headdress with serpent encircling a glyph on the centre front. Mould made. Headdress of complex construction. The base sits on a fringe (indistinct) across the forehead. The centre band has nine slightly sinuous upright bars flanked either side, above the earspools, by five vertical bars. At each end are rays which may be feathers or tassel ends.

    The upper headdress back appears to consist of four concentric tiers of feathers with a round glyph (including scroll sign) at the centre. The glyph is encircled by a rattle snake, the head coiled out to one side over the tail rattle extending to the other. The lower edge of the backing feather roundel appears in a triangle above the middle of the headdress base, below the snake. Figure wears oval eye rings over lidded eyes. Nose and lipped, open mouth intact. Back slightly concave. Broken obliquely through the neck leaving half an earspool with central raised dot on one side but the other intact. White pigment on front and back. Red pigment the glyph and on some of the backing feathers.

  • Accession Number
    2012.19.489
  • Accession Date
    10 Dec 2012
  • Other Id

    L1004 (LA Museum number)

    16552 (Asset Register)

  • Department
head, figurine 2012.19.489

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