Accession No
Z 7531
Description
Dari. Feathered headdress worn in dances. Made of woven coconut fibre bands on cane frame, ochred red, white & laundry blue. In centre a stylized a human face with attached wood nose. One matchbox bean attached at top of head. Cassowary plumes bound round outer rim, with (frigate bird?) feathers projecting.'
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Torres Strait; Mer
Period
19th century
Source
Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
Z 7531; OH 672
Cultural Affliation
Material
Feather; Cane; Pigment; Plant fibre; Wood; Seed
Local Term
Dari
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Card 1 (handwritten): 'DARI. Feather head-dress worn in dances Kab.'
Card 2 (transcribed, 1986):'Woven coconut fibre bands on cane frame ochred red, white & blue. In centre stylized human face with attached wood nose. One matchbox bean attached at top of head. Cassowary plumes bound round outer rim, with (frigate bird?) feathers projecting.'
Good
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Dari. Feathered headdress worn in dances. Made of woven coconut fibre bands on cane frame, ochred red, white & laundry blue. In centre a stylized a human face with attached wood nose. One matchbox bean attached at top of head. Cassowary plumes bound round outer rim, with (frigate bird?) feathers projecting.'
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Amendments / updates)
Red round sticker on the handwritten catalogue card. Date unknown.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Amendments / updates)
Pencil annotation 'Long Drawer F' on the handwritten catalogue card. Presumably an old museum display location. Date unknown.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Amendments / updates)
Pencil annotation 'A 401' on the back of the handwritten catalogue card.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Loan (Exhibition)
Exhibition: 'Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait' June 25 2011 - December 31 2011
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Alfred Cort Haddon in 1898.
Event Date 1898
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Related Documents)
Transcribed catalogue card reads 'References: TSR 4: 37, 38, 364, 365. pl.VI. pl. VIII, figs 1-4.'
Event Date 4/11/1986
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Exhibition' at UCMAA, July 1998 to December 2000.
Event Date 7/1998
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888-1905' at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, March 2001-May 2002 and at the Cairns Regional Gallery, June to September 2002.
Event Date 3/2001
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Loan (Exhibition)
National Museum of Australia, 1/3/2001 to 1/9/2002, Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888-1905: A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge.
Event Date 1/3/2001
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait' at Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia, 25 June 2011- 2 October 2011.
Event Date 25/6/2011
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
FM:79554
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