Lot Essay
The cassowary feather hat can be seen displayed on the wall in Voigt's home in Herbertshoehe in the photograph numbered 51 of his album, lot 135 in the sale.
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TEN MELANESIAN ARTEFACTS
A circular fiber chest ornament sewn with ovula and nassa shells and painted red and blue; a fiber ornament with four boar's tusks and sewn with cowrie shells; a turtleshell armlet with incised fish and geometric ornament; two cassowary-bone daggers with incised ornament; a bone nose-pin; two bone awls, one with bird head finial; a cassowary feather hat; and a cassowary feather ornament
The bone daggers 13in. (33cm.) and 12½in. (32cm.) long (10)
A circular fiber chest ornament sewn with ovula and nassa shells and painted red and blue; a fiber ornament with four boar's tusks and sewn with cowrie shells; a turtleshell armlet with incised fish and geometric ornament; two cassowary-bone daggers with incised ornament; a bone nose-pin; two bone awls, one with bird head finial; a cassowary feather hat; and a cassowary feather ornament
The bone daggers 13in. (33cm.) and 12½in. (32cm.) long (10)