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Men's Bonnets in New Guinea Jewelled Dandy of Papua

MEN'S BONNETS IN NEW GUINEA

JEWELLED DANDY OF PAPUA

North coast Papuans wear a headdress of black wooly material sewn on to a frontlet of minute beads, fibre breast ornaments, and armlets of boars' tusks and tridacna shell His trinkets include ropes of shells on his neck and breast, tortoiseshell ear-rings, and a frontal circlet of small white shells split and sewn on a finely plaited rattan