A Unique Feathered Headdress

Headdress from Tubuai, Austral Islands.
The original Perth Museum register
records this as ‘Cap worn by Tomatoa,
Principle Chief of the Island of Tuhuca
in the Australia group of the South Sea Islands’.

In our collection we have some incredible artefacts, some of which you would not necessarily associate with a Museum in the highlands of Scotland, one of these is the unique feathered headdress pictured here.

Mark Hall, History Officer at Perth Museum & Art Gallery hosted the Perth leg of a  project review for two weeks, with visits from Eve, Chantal and also Christofili Kefalas (Researcher of Maori material and British Museum Future Curators trainee). One of the most exciting discoveries has been the full recognition of the importance of the unique head-dress from the Austral Islands in the Perth collection.
For more details see Eves Blog