Lot 32 A New Guinea feather headdress comprising a thick backswept cluster of cassowary feathers tipped with red and yellow parrot feathers and white parrot feathers, a row of six hornbill beaks forming a crown-like device across the front, 20 in (51 cm) wide approx. With a painted label reading "Hornbill & Feather Headdress from Orokaiva, a Northern division of Papua or British New Guinea" Provenance: Formerly in the Savage Collection and now Pitt Rivers Collection.
Source: Rethinking Pitt-Rivers | Possible Pitt-Rivers' second collection artefacts 2
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Lot 32 A New Guinea feather headdress comprising a thick backswept cluster of cassowary feathers tipped with red and yellow parrot feathers and white parrot feathers, a row of six hornbill beaks forming a crown-like device across the front, 20 in (51 cm) wide approx. With a painted label reading "Hornbill & Feather Headdress from Orokaiva, a Northern division of Papua or British New Guinea" Provenance: Formerly in the Savage Collection and now Pitt Rivers Collection.
Source: Rethinking Pitt-Rivers | Possible Pitt-Rivers' second collection artefacts 2
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