Headdress
The crests represent benevolent spirits which live by the sea and rivers. They are worn and danced by men at a feast held almost every 25 years to celebrate the new generation of villagers coming to maturity.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 86/1999/5/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- pithcanevegetable fibrefeatherpigment
- Common Name
- headdress
- Simple Name
- headdress
- Period Classification
- Modern (1900-)
- Production Town
- Uvol Village
- Production County
- New Britain
- Production Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Production Date
- 1987
