a rare Easter Island feather headdress

HAU PEU-TEU-KI

细节

a rare Easter Island feather headdress
hau peu-teu-ki
Composed of many brown, irridescent black and cream cockerel feathers attached to strands of twisted coconut fibre by twisted fibre, inner ring of bark cloth
approx 35cm. diam.

来源

K.K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, collected before 1860
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, no. 22879

出版

Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.244, Pl.197

展览

Ta'aroa, l' Univers polynesien, Brussels, 1982, no.126
L'Ile de Paques: une enigme?, Brussels, 1990, no.115

拍品专文

Biebuyck writes that the feathered headbands of Hawaii are worn by particular categories - chiefs, warriors, dancers in different dances - each indicated by the shape of the headdress and the colour of the feathers. He deduced that circlets similar to the present are worn by men in dances.