This symmetrical headdress is semicircular in shape, approx 1m in diameter, the cap being outlined with brown feathers. The body comprises a base of pure white feathers on which are worked four semicircular rows of small feathers, two rows green & black, two orange & black. Adorning the front of the headdress at the top are four saucer-size head ornaments. Two extended white bird wings fan out from each side of the bottom of the headress to cover the wearer’s shoulders, while four fine, red/brown cassowary feathers stand erect around its arc; two single white feathers form an arch in the centre of each cassowary feather. Two flowers made of multicoloured feathers stand upright on the crown of the headdress.
To the left of the headdress are two grey clay Asaro Mud Men holosa spirit masks approximately 25cm tall. Kandisua, at the top, has sharp, angular features complete with a snarl accentuating its pigs teeth while the features of Morgoniho, below, are smoother, softer and more rounded. Each have holes about the size of a 50c piece for the eyes and nose.
Below these stands the 1.5metre skeleton of a Southern Cassowary next to which, set on the left edge of a central plinth, stands a 30cm head ornament of large fine brown cassowary feathers. In front of this are coiled two 10cm wide bark belts. One is tan in colour and embossed with a design in lime and ochre, the other is dark brown with a filigree grid design.
In the centre of the plinth lie the earthy red/brown skin of the Buergers’ Tree-kangaroo and the dark grey skin of Lumholtz’s Tree-kangaroo.
To the right of the headdress is a cone-shaped eharo mask approximately 50cm high. Its base colour is white. The crown is covered with black bark cloth, a strip of which runs down either side of the mask culminating in square zigzag patterns on top of which are set large brown circular eyes. The black bark cloth continues downwards in a thick black line ending just under the mouth. A T-shaped cane strip which runs centrally down to an open, black-rimmed, elongated oval mouth, forms the eyebrows and nose. The mask has two reddish brown stick-like arms extending upwards from its side with four fingers on the end of each.
Below this is a Kovave spirit mask which, at just over a metre high, strikes an imposing figure. At the base is a curved rope-like brim. Above that, what looks like two fish, meeting with open mouths full of small sharp teeth, wrap themselves around to tails adorned with brown tassels curving up at either side of the mask. They have two large eyes and their bodies are decorated with a blue & white zig zag pattern on a terracotta coloured backdrop. The mask tapers upwards to an earthy toned kerosene lamp shape with brown tassels at its base and a wire handle at the top.
Below these masks stands the 1-metre-tall skeleton of a wild boar next to which, set on the right edge of the central plinth, is a boar tusk breast ornament comprising eight ovulum shells circling woven seeds on a bed of red feathers. Four large boar tusks, suspended by a chain below this disc, form semicircles from the centre of which hang four multicolour glass bead chains with boars’ teeth attached to their ends.