Summary
This neck ornament is decorated with the pink feathers of either the gala, a rose-breasted cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla), spun into the string.
Physical Description
A necklace made of multiple strands of feathered string attached at either end to a length of vegetable fibre string that is doubled over and knotted at the end.
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Object/Medium
Ornament, neck
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Object Measurements
495 mm (Length), 130 mm (Width), 45 mm (Height)
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Place Made
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Indigenous Region
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Acquisition Information
Presented from Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands