Headdress

97-18-21

From: Zaire

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 97-18-21
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Kuba (African culture)
Provenience Zaire
Section African
Materials Wood | Beads | Shells | Fiber
Description

Carved wood with a woven raffia head piece stiched with cowrie shells and multe colored glass beads. Narrow slit eyes. Black and red painted design. Strands of beads sewn on woven fiber and attached above eyes and on top of the nose and around the mouth.

Height 35 cm
Length 18 cm
Credit Line Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hill II, 1997

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