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Object Number 06-13-70/66292
Display Title Feather head ornament
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headdress, corona of cassowary feathers on vegetable fiber loop with ties
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 41 x 29 x 4 cm (16 1/8 x 11 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 66292

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