Headdress
Object Details
- Notes
- A "MARMAR" HEAD WREATH W/ SHELLS. COMPOSED OF TWO BANDS OF CELLULOSE FIBERS, EACH OF WHICH HAVE BEEN WOVEN W/ ANOTHER FIBER AND THEN ATTACHED TOGETHER. ON THEEXTERIOR OF THESE BANDS, 5 STRANDS OF FIBER DYED PURPLE HAVE BEEN INTERWOVEN, AND A CONTINUOUS BAND OF SHELLS ATTACHED. UNBOUND FIBERS DECORATE THE HEAD WREATH'S TOP. MARIE-HELENE SACHET (COLLECTOR) IDENTIFIES THE OBJECT FROM COMING FROM THE "CENTRAL CAROLINES?".
- Record Last Modified
- 2 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 28 Jul 1999
- Accession Number
- 420729
- USNM Number
- E428738-0
- Collector
- Marie-Helene Sachet
- Donor Name
- Muriel W. Sterne
- Object Type
- Headdress
- Length - Object
- 18 cm
- Width - Object
- 15.5 cm
- Height - Object
- 3.6 cm
- Place
- Central Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
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- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8460843
- Usage
- CC0
