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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38720, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38718, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38723, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; red lori feathers; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38717, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38722, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; red lori feathers; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Feathers, accession number 11-38716, described as Head ornament; looped headband of tree inner bark; cassowary feathers, punting and wesek painted with mut; worn over forehead, fastened with pig leg bone (HIN) on headnet
Hearst Museum object titled Flute, accession number 11-40757, described as flute; sacred bamboo flute with plaited fiber strips and cassowary feathers at both ends; most of one side overlaid with zoomorphic decoration with head composed of gourd and mastic with inset shells, loop-like nose; cowries and other shells set in mastic with cassowary feather trim cover most of one side; sacred flute regarded ad the embodiment of the crocodile spirits of the river; such flutes are usually associated with a cult of supernatural masks; they are hereditary possessions which are addressed by kinship terms and offered food; cf. 11-40731
Hearst Museum object titled Model pig, accession number 11-39278, described as Pig, large basketry model, plaited technique with open warp spacing. Painted black with white, golden and rust stripes. Eyes of cowrie shell on coiled base. Main body is decorated with cassowary tail plumes, with three feather wands on either side of the snout.
Hearst Museum object titled Wooden figure, accession number 11-39243, described as Figure; wooden; carved; male with tall forehead; pearl shell eyes; human hair; cassowary feathers; knotless netting decoration of head; shell and fiber ornament on right ear

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