Frontlet of long brown cassowary feathers and small white and brown feathers attached to a base of coiled basketry painted in red and white with a zigzag design in black. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/12/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Frontlet of long brown cassowary feathers and small white and brown feathers attached to a base of coiled basketry painted in red and white with a zigzag design in black. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/12/2005]
Long description: Woven plant fibre headband with black cassowary feathers attached on the interior. White and brown semi-plumaceous feathers are bound to a thick plant fibre splint that is tied to the top of the woven headband. The woven headband is painted with black triangles on a white background with red trim. (Robin Ohern, December 2011) [HR 13/12/2011]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Person: Field collector Cooke Daniels expedition; PRM source William Cooke Daniels
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1905
Date collected: 1904 - 1905
Acquisition information: Donated: 1905
Materials and processes: Material Cassowary Feather Bird, Material String, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Process Coiled, Process Painted, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Length: max 450 mm, Width: max 250 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1905.63.47 Other numbers: Cooke Daniels number 47
Research and responses: Andrew Gosler and Juan Gonzalez, during a research visit, agreed that the black feathers were cassowary feathers. They were uncertain as to the identity of the white feathers. [ROH 07/03/2012]

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