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A ceremonial headdress, Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands…
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Sydney
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8-May-2016
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A ceremonial headdress, Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands Province, finely made from bark cloth and resin over a cane frame, decorated with croix seeds, shells, feathers and ochre painted. This type of headdress was unique to the Wahgi Valley clans. See similar headdress in the book: Paradise, Portraying the New Guinea Highlands by Michael O'Hanlon for a British Museum Exhibition in 1993. Provenance: Collected by Todd Barlin in the Western Highlands 1987 mount Hagen show. 70 cm
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Tribal: New Guinean