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>Costume Studies
>>1907 Toraja to kapua
>>>armor
Subject: to kapua 'big man' warrior
Culture: Toraja
Setting: tribal warfare, anti-colonial resistance, Sulawesi highlands late 19th - mid-20thc
Object: baju pa'barani armor = songkok helmet, pa'kara kara cuirass



American Museum of Natural History > Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples *
" [...] Horns appear on warrior's helmets and dance costumes,
 and are represented in graphic decoration." ...




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