Headdress With Feather Tips
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Jul 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Us Consul Isaac M. Brower
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Old label: "Small sticks wrapped with cotton, ornamented on one end with chicken feathers, arranged in shape of fan and held together by stiffening-band, the lower ends being looped to go over sticks or spits bound together to form a comb. The comb goes in hair and holds head-dress on in vertical position. Worn in dancing. Levuka Island. Radius of fan: 14". Comb; L. 9". “… of similar withi [sic] headdress T316” [At bottom of card 23985A]: “Reattributed to Fiji by Dr. Kaeppler.”
label: Notes
content: Rare headdress most likely worn only by very high-ranking chiefs of Northern Fiji, especially the Tui Cakau (paramount chief of Cakaudrove), on ceremonial occasions.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005306
label: USNM Number
content: E23985-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Fan
content: 71 cm
label: Length - Comb
content: 23 cm