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ASMAT - IRIAN JAYA

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ASMAT - IRIAN JAYA Headdress made of braided rope, decorated with polychrome seeds, coffee bean shells and a cassowary beak enhanced with polychrome pigments, decorated with two boar tusks. Crown of feathers of domesticated gallinaceous, in lower part pendants of seeds and feathers, vegetable fibers in the back. Metal base Total height: 100 cm (Accidents and missing) (Casuariidae spp) (Gallus gallus domesticus) These species are not subject to regulation, in particular under the Washington Convention (CITES) or the EC Regulation 338/97 of 09/12/1996.