Description (Physical description)
New headdress made of three parts:
A: Strip of barkcloth, folded in half and moulded over the "wig" below. Painted with groups of red lines (has now been folded for preservation).
B: "Wig". Shaped like a bird's nest and made of the seed capsules of some plant with long hooks on a cane frame, which interlock and form a solid felt, dark brown.
C: 9 feathers of the white cockatoo, tipped with yellow.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Register notes the source as Rev J. D Bodger, Clarke Gift/ Dogura, Central Range/ made for the collection'.

The Rev John Bodger of the Australian Board of Missions came to New Guinea in 1928/9 and in 1937 was Priest-ln-Charge of Dogura, the head station of the New Guinea Mission, in Bartle Bay on the north-east coast. He also served as Headmaster Dogura School and became diocesan chaplain to the Bishop of New Guinea in 1938. Details from The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June 1937 and July 23 1938.

The Pitt Rivers museum database also notes Bodger as from the 'Anglican Museum, Samarai, Papua' and accessioned Papuan material in 1934 and 1942, though the latter had been sent in 1936 but was not registered.

Event Date 5/3/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau