Head ornament
- Museum number:
- 11-37828
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037828
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- head ornament, worn by men for dances; strips of Lygodium fiber woven in openwork basketry technique, with inner and outer rings employing a zig-zag motif; encrusted with clay, usually before painting (not painted)
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Abelam
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Head ornaments
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania