1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 XEM8 located at 451 Montgomery Street

located at 451 Montgomery Street in San Francisco

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1927 Print Ao Warrior Military Regalia Native Costume ORIGINAL HISTORIC TRV1 XEM8 located at 451 Montgomery StreetThis is an original 1927 halftone print of an image of the military regalia of the Ao Warrior, consisting of a brilliant costume flashing with color and barbaric splendor. His weapons are the long spear and the dao or chopper shaped axe. On his head is a chaplet of cane covered with bear fur from which rise the bright feathers of the sacred hornbill. Strings of bear tusks hang from his neck, an elaborately embroidered baldric fringed with red hair