Feather Headdress
Unidentified Kerewa maker, Goaribari Island, Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guineacollected 1912
Cassowary feathers (diware), feathers, Job's tears (berege), bark fiber string, fiber
Overall: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (23 × 29 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Mrs. A. Lincoln Washburn, Class of 1935W
53.57.12919
Geography/Culture
Oceania, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Headwear
Classification
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
Exhibition History
Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-September 17, 2006.
Publication History
Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, and Sebastian Haraha, Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p. 88.
Provenance
Collected by William Patten, March 17-23, 1912; Mrs. A. Lincoln Washburn [wife of Dr. Albert Lincoln Washburn, (1911-2007, Class of 1935), Dartmouth Professor of Geology,1953-1961]; given to present collection, 1953.
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