Fighting Jacket
P1152
From: Borneo | Sarawak | Pliran River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P1152 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Madang |
| Provenience | Borneo | Sarawak | Pliran River |
| Date Made | Before 1897 |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Sun Bear Skin | Hornbill Casque | Glass | Hornbill Feather | Shell |
| Description | 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. |
| Height | 93 cm |
| Width | 50 cm |
| Depth | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
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