This is a really interesting Black Palm and plant fiber Prong for a
Headdress used for dancing from the people along the May River in Papua
New Guinea. This prong or hair stick is like a building block on which
they can create their own their own individual and stylized addition to
their headdresses. The feather are attached to this woven fiber palm
prong base. 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 prong 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 prong headdress. This is a wonderful and very interesting black
palm prong and once completed and added to a headdress, it is beautiful.
Some women just wear it as hair stick decoration as well. This would
be an interesting item to add to your collection. This is an old and
unusual piece and some of the plant fiber is lose and one of the black
palms is broken.
16 1/2" tall COMES ON STAND
1" wide
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