FMNH 162981.nosub[1]
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Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History - Ethnology. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-46 | Provenience: Philippine Islands, Luzon Island, village of Paket. | People or Culture: Ilongot | Object: Head ornament | Material: Bill of Kalaw bird, wood, aluminum, plastic, brass, cotton, deer hair, yarn. | Description: Headdress is beak-shaped. Beak made of red Ka-law bird bill pressed together so sides and top are flat forming a T-shaped section. Beak has 2 points: large point curving down; small point extending from flattened top. Large point tipped with aluminum, ending in tuft of deer hair, yarn, and long chain with red plastic pendant. Top and one side of aluminum tip engraved in zig-zag pattern. Seam between aluminum and bill material finished with red and blue yarn with yellow plastic pendant. Sides of [continued on back]. | Dimensions (in cm.): Length- 40.40 | Collection: Purchased from Rev. Dell G. Schultze 27 June 1967. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 162981 | Field No. 1 | Neg. No. 11 | Acc. 2958 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] [continued from front] large point reinforced with curved strips of aluminum. Small point tipped in 2 tufts of deer hair and red yarn, and 2 long brass chains with red pendants. Behind beak is apparatus of 3 wooden slats extending back from top and sides of beak. Slats narrow in center, flare at ends. Top slat and top of beak form spear shape. 8 white plastic but-tons in Y-design along top. Seam between side slats and bill material finished in serated aluminum strips. Buttons along sides; one missing on left side. Slats are all edged with scalloped aluminum. Side slats braced toward back wtih brass tube. Pendants hanging from lower edges. Long red strips of cotton cloth tied in holes and knotted at extreme back ends. Acc. collector: "This decoration is only worn by a head-hunter". | [1 photograph] |Catalog Number: 162981.nosub[1]Description: head ornamentMaterials: wood, plastic, metal; aluminum, metal; brass, cotton, deer hair, yarn, bird beak; hornbillCultural Attribution: IlongotAccession Number: [2958] D. G. Schultze (Purchase)Accession Year: 1967Other Numbers: 1City/Town: Paket VillageCollector/Source: Reverend Dell G. Schultze, Reverend Dell G. SchultzeEMu IRN: 1065927GUID: ed82f5f1-c7cb-4dc1-b886-5b98f4175489Disclaimer: The Field Museum's online Anthropology Collections Database may contain cultural items and historical records that are culturally sensitive. Some records may also include offensive language. These records do not reflect the Field Museum's current viewpoint but rather the social attitudes and circumstances of the time period when items were collected or cataloged. Visitors to this site are also advised that some records may contain names, images, and recordings of deceased individuals and that some records document human remains.
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