Model headdress. [El.B 13/01/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Model headdress. [El.B 13/01/2009]
Long description: Model headdress. Tiny basketry headdress with openweave sides and solid brim. Attached to top is circle of green feathers with top cut off and a tail of blue yellow and black feathers hanging down. [diagram on conservation lab card] (Lorraine Rostant 21/03/2000) [JFK 26/8/2008]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana; Essequibo River
Person: Field collector Lieutenant Westwood; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1812
Date collected: 1812
Acquisition information: Transferred: 23/06/1886
Materials and processes: Material Bird Feather, Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Height: max 130 mm, Diameter: max 150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.923 Other numbers: 948 454
Research and responses: Note the discrepancy in date of transfer to the PRM between the vellum volume entry and the list [AP 18/6/99]

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