Crescent-shaped head ornament of pieces of shell and feathers fastened to matting.

Collection type: Object
Description: Crescent-shaped head ornament of pieces of shell and feathers fastened to matting.
Geographical reference: French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
Oceania > Polynesia > French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1862
Date collected: By 1862
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 2002
Materials and processes: Material Shell, Material Plant Fibre, Material Bird Feather, Process Netted
Dimensions: Height: max 36 mm, Length x Width: max 540 x 366 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.127
Research and responses: According to an email (not kept) from Jenny Newell (Department of Ethnography, British Museum), dated 29 April 2003, this is a head ornament from the Austral Islands. There is a similar piece in the British Museum (Oc.7054). [JC 11 12 2003]