Title
Aiya (cassowary feather headdress)
mid 20th century
collected 1963
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Cassowary headdress
Hat - Place where the work was made
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Laiagam
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Enga Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Enga people
- Dates
- mid 20th century
collected 1963 - Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- cassowary feathers (Casuarius), plant fibre string plaited to form cord, headdress folds inwards by pulling a cord top centre inside hat
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 40.0 x 40.0 cm overall approx.
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 288.1978
- Copyright
- © Enga people, under the endorsement of the Pacific Islands Museums Association's (PIMA) Code of Ethics
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Places
Where the work was made
Laiagam
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1974 -
Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2014–10 Aug 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tony Tuckson, Aboriginal and Melanesian art, Sydney, 1973, 37 (illus.), 54. cat.no. H126
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Natalie Wilson (Editor), Plumes and pearlshells: art of the New Guinea highlands, Sydney, 2014, 98 (colour illus.), 161. cat.no. 42
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