A New Guinea bark cloth hat
A New Guinea bark cloth hat

LAE-WOMBA, MARKHAM RIVER

Details
A New Guinea bark cloth hat
Lae-Womba, Markham river
Of hemispherical form with painted dark brown bands on a natural ground
17cm. high
Provenance
Lieutenant Neuhaus, collected in 1920
Exhibited
Art Papou, 1979, fig.8.9, where the author states that such hats were worn by head-hunters

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