Hair ornament

Maker
Sbyay
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this ornament, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.

Jackson fieldnotes: Hair ornament of a sort of grass. Bac bac = name of this ornament which is made by males and worn in the hair by males, being held in place by a sort of needle, such as a nawot kala (bat bone needle).
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Object detail

Maker
Media/Materials
Natural fibre.
Measurements
50 x 53 x 3mm - HxWxD
Production place
Lower Kaironk Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/131

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