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Decoration for headhunters
Badge of honour for headhunters, consisting of ten bamboo rods
Ten half bamboo sticks, with some brown and grey seeds and pieces of a thorn, strung on a string. Worn around the neck. According to father Van Weerdenburg the number of bamboo sticks would indicate the number of snubbed heads.
Type of item
- Object Type: costume accessories
- clothing accessories
- Breast badge
- Costume accessory
Date
- voor 1963
Type of item
- Object Type: costume accessories
- clothing accessories
- Breast badge
- Costume accessory
Date
- voor 1963
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1963
Provenance
- 1963-12-09
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/103745
Format
- Technique: applications
- appliqué (technique)
- Appliqué
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z