The old label inscribed: War Ornament of tusks & feathers. New Guinea. Cf. Edge-Partington, J., An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress Etc., of the Natives of the Pacific Islands, Part 1, Manchester, 1890, p.274, fig.3, for a similar ornament in the British Museum obtained at Port Moresby. Another, collected in the Torres Straits (where is must have been traded from New Guinea) is illustrated in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Cambridge, 1912, Vol.IV, p.204, fig.207