Dance Costume Headpiece

29-50-664

From: New Guinea | Palimbei

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-50-664
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Palimbei
Section Oceanian
Materials Palm Spathe | Rattan | Feather
Description

Of painted palm spathe representing the head and trunk of a pig with a "mane" of cassowary feathers and a tail tipped with the same -- on a rattan framework.

Height 26.5 cm
Length 105.5 cm
Width 35 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 588 - Other Number

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