Head-dress

Originally used as some kind of marker in the late 20c/early 21c, this item was subsequently ‘mined’ from a 21c landfill site and was used by early 22c settlers as a high status head-dress. Its status derives from the wearer being unable to do anything practical whilst wearing it.
Whilst some landfill plastics remain (particularly in the region formerly known as China where huge quantities of ‘waste’ plastics were sent across the great oil age trading routes as ballast in ships on their return journeys), most were mined out in the early 22c for the extraction of oil by the very wealthy. The use of plastics was by this time the preserve of the ultra-rich who often used the extracted plastics to make (and run) ‘retro’ appliances and toys for their homes..