Breast ornament, Museum of Tahiti and the Islands
Breast ornament made from cockerel feathers, crescent-shaped and mounted on a coir cord, from the Marquesas Islands, in the Musee de Tahiti et des Iles, or Te Fare Manaha, at Punaauia, on the island of Tahiti, in the Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia. The Museum of Tahiti and the Islands was opened in 1974 and displays collections of nature and anthropology, habitations and artefacts, social and religious life and the history of French Polynesia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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Archipel Artefact Cockerel Coir Collectivite Collectivity Cord Doutre-mer Fare Francaise Iles Manaha Marquesas Oceania Ornament Polynesia Polynesian Polynesie Punaauia Republique Societe Tahiti Tahitian Totaiete Vent Windward
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