RIO ARAGUAIA AREA

Details

A KARAJA MAN'S FEATHER HEADDRESS
Rio Araguaia area
The fan of wood ribs with attached pink and black feathers, the terminals bound with white cotton fibres with pink flamingo feathers at the tips
139cm. wide

Literature

Biebuyck, D. and Van den Abbeele, N., The Power of Headdresses, Brussels, 1984, p.271, pl.218

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cf. Rabineau, P., Feather Arts, Chicago, 1979, p.43, for a photograph of a man wearing a similar headdress at the back of the head. According to Biebuyck and Van den Abbeele (op.cit. p.218) the headdress is attached by means of a long pigtail which young men have grown by the time of their marriage

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