Headdress, Australia, Rainforest

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Item X 38652 Dagui or Samera | Headdress. Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia. pre 1930

Local Name

Dagui or Samera

Physical Description

An ornament made of varying lengths of cassowary feathers stitched together with vegetable fibre string to form a band. Short lengths of vegetable fibre string are attached at either end.

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Object/Medium

Headdress
Maker

Unknown
Locality

Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia
Date Produced

pre 1930
Date Collected

pre 1931
Object Measurements

530 mm (Length), 420 mm (Width), 35 mm (Height)
Classification

Bunjilaka, Many nations, Celebrating culture
Date Made

Before 1930
Maker

Not Recorded
Clan/Language Group

Yirrganydji
Place Made

Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Indigenous Region

Rainforest, Australia
Keywords

Body Decoration
Collection Names

D. Raymond Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands

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Item X 38652 Dagui or Samera | Headdress. Cairns, Rainforest, Queensland, Australia. pre 1930

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