Trophy Skull Decoration

Model Ear Pendant

Large plumb shaped wooden ear pendant, with pattern of alternating large and small triangles carved around widest part. One side of tip broken off. Top (with hole for suspension) intact. From the decorated skull of "a chief of the Kelabit tribe," which was "draped with strips of palm leaves, possibly to represent hair, and ornamented with wooden ears, ear-pendants, and a long wooden nose. Such ornamentation of skulls is not usual, at least in the Baram District." (The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters)