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PROBABLY ASARO, MOUNT HAGEN
Details
A rare New Guinea feather and shell headdress
Probably Asaro, Mount Hagen
With lenticular fibre panel covered in nassa camelus shells, triangular reddened and blackened triangles at the centre, with inserted layers of the yellow and white tails of six lesser birds of paradise on sticks, two beaks and feathered crests of the goura pigeon, the body of Wilson's bird of paradise of irridescent green, and at the centre the russet tail feathers of a bird of paradise
Probably Asaro, Mount Hagen
With lenticular fibre panel covered in nassa camelus shells, triangular reddened and blackened triangles at the centre, with inserted layers of the yellow and white tails of six lesser birds of paradise on sticks, two beaks and feathered crests of the goura pigeon, the body of Wilson's bird of paradise of irridescent green, and at the centre the russet tail feathers of a bird of paradise
Literature
Biebuyck, D., and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.230, Pl.184