Papua New Guinea Wood Headdress Stick May River

This is a really interesting Brown Wood Hair Stick for a Headdress used for dancing from the people along the May River in Papua New Guinea. This hair stick is like a building block on which they can create their own their own individual and stylized addition to their headdresses. These magnificent constructions are dense with colorful feathers from cassowary birds, black iridescent rooster tail feathers and all the other exotic colored birds feathers., and other found objects. Making a headdress is another task that a man undertakes on coming of age, and is a long-term undertaking, because each man has to comb the forest on his own to find the feathers that will decorate his headdress. Some women just wear it as hair stick decoration as well. This would be an interesting item to add to your home or collection. T

Late 20th-Century

Shown Natural Age and Wear

17 Inches Tall
1 1/4 Inches Wide

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