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Fighting Jacket
Before 1897
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Fighting Jacket
- Date Created: Before 1897
- Location Created: Pliran River, Sarawak, Borneo
- Physical Dimensions: 93 x 50 x 12 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Sun Bear Skin, Hornbill Casque, Glass, Hornbill Feather, Shell
- Object Number: P1152
- Descriptive Note: Fighting jacket made of the skin of a sun bear (Helarctos malayanus). Hole at top for head. Back covered with rows of tail feathers of the Rhinoceros Hornbill, trimmed to points top and bottom and suspended by short strings of glass beads, and a fringed panel of black and yellow glass beads. Front (on wearere's chest) decorated with rhinoceros hornbill beaks and casques and a large pearl shell disc.
- Culture: Madang
- Credit Line: Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898
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