Vintage Painted Plaster Wall Bust – Figure with Feather Headdress – 25cm

Vintage polychrome plaster wall bust depicting a stylised figure wearing a large orange and yellow feather headdress with green geometric headband, painted jewellery and an earring.

The hollow moulded reverse has a metal hanging loop for wall display. A distinctive example of vintage decorative wall art with a mid-20th-century appearance, although the maker, precise age and place of manufacture are unverified.

• Height: approximately 25 cm
• Weight: approximately 2 kg
• Material: painted moulded plaster or composition
• Stock location: Northam Secondhand

Condition: visible paint wear, surface scuffs and small losses, especially to the reverse. Please examine photographs carefully.

The design presents a stylised, stereotyped depiction of an Indigenous North American person; no particular community or individual is identified.