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1887.1.503

Headdress

1887.1.503

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Collection type
Object
Description
Headdress
Geographical reference
Cook Islands
Oceania > Polynesia > Cook Islands
Mangaia
Date / Period
Date made: 1874
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.503
Research and responses

In the George Rolleston archive (Ashmolean Museum) there is a brief hand-written note by Rolleston referring to this object noting that it was presented to the University Museum in June 1874. See copy in RDF. [AS 06/03/2012]

Search terms: Clothing, Ornament, Clothing Headgear, Headdress, Head Ornament

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