Context (Related Documents)
Pencil writing 'hoho' on the back of the handwritten catalogue card.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Card 1 (handwritten): 'DAGUI (DAGORI, DAGOI) or SAMERA. Head-dress of cassowary ([?sam]) feathers without supplemental band.'
Card 2 (transcribed, 1986): 'cassowary feather sewn into woven band.'
Used in warfare and ceremonials. Stated to be imported from New Guinea; Good
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Alfred Cort Haddon in 1888.
Event Date 1888
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (References)
Haddon, A.C. et al (1912) 'Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Vol. 4, Arts and Crafts'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 36.
Event Date 1912
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Transcribed catalogue card notes 'References: TSR 4: 36. pl. VII, fig.1. pl. VIII, figs 2,5.'
Event Date 28/11/1986
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
'Dagui' (dagori, dagoi) or "samera'. Head-dress of cassowary ('sam') feathers sewn into woven band. Used in warfare and ceremonials.
Event Date 10/7/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu