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- Ipili-Payala peoples
- married woman's headdress, late 1800s–1967
- Where object was made: Lagaip, Papua New Guinea
- plant fiber, beads, marsupial testicles, Job's tears, shell?, netting
- Object Length/Width: 62 x 20 cm
Object Length/Width: 24 7/16 x 7 7/8 in - Museum purchase: KUEA Funds
- Not on display
- 2007.6783
- Ipili-Payala peoples
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Oblong, netted, oval headcover made from plant fiber string. It is brown. Mottled white and black buttons are sewn on the arch worn over the head. There is a double strand of white job's tears at the edge in front of the buttons and handing loosely at the ends. There is a tassel of beads on either side, each with two light colored furry balls at the ends, one with a button. The beads are red on one tassel and white with red or green sprinkled in.