Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Headdress

early to mid-20th century
Artist Unidentified, Pacific Islander
Overall: 95 x 43 cm (37 3/8 x 16 15/16 in.)
Cane, bark cloth, and pigment

Classification: Sculpture

Culture: Indonesian, New Guinea, Papuan Gulf (Elema peoples)

Accession number: 2008.1649

Provenance/Ownership History: About 1960, Wayne Heathcote, Brussels; 1980s, sold by Wayne Heathcote to John Friede; after 1980s, sold by John Friede to Wayne Heathcote; May 15, 2008, sold by Bonham's New York auction # 16124: Fine African and Oceanic Art, lot 514 to an anonymous collector, Cambridge, MA; 2008, gift of the anonymous collector to the MFA. (Accession date: January 21, 2009)

Anonymous gift