Headdress
Presented to Somerset Museum Service by Mrs Molesworth, The Rectory, Huish Episcopi, Langport, Somerset. Transferred to RAMM in 2007.
Mrs. Molesworth had acquired the headdress in 1957. According to the donor’s accompanying note “Normally these headdresses are burnt after ceremony but this was procured as a present for me in 1957. The whole is very authentic and has been used for a wedding, the only thing that is slightly wrong is the pink dye in the string head band, that is not a natural dye but was brought from a store of which the are several in Letham, the capital of the area. The feathers all come from the macaw, birds which naturally inhabit the area. The small black feathers at the end of one of the strings comes from a different bird, it is the crest of the curasow[sic].”
Mrs. Molesworth had acquired the headdress in 1957. According to the donor’s accompanying note “Normally these headdresses are burnt after ceremony but this was procured as a present for me in 1957. The whole is very authentic and has been used for a wedding, the only thing that is slightly wrong is the pink dye in the string head band, that is not a natural dye but was brought from a store of which the are several in Letham, the capital of the area. The feathers all come from the macaw, birds which naturally inhabit the area. The small black feathers at the end of one of the strings comes from a different bird, it is the crest of the curasow[sic].”
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 574/2007/20/3
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- organic fibre (palm?)cane
- Common Name
- headdress
- Simple Name
- headdress
- Production County
- Rapunini river region
- Production Country
- Guyana
- Production Year High
- 1957