Headdress, cone shaped straw hat decorated with red feathers

Made:
1870-1930 in Kenya
Headdress, cone shaped straw hat decorated with red feathers

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Headdress, cone shaped straw hat decorated with red feathers
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Headdress, cone shaped straw hat decorated with red feathers, Ja-Luo tribe, Kavirondo district, Kenya, 1870-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657354
Materials:
straw, wood and feathers
Measurements:
height 160 mm
diameter 220 mm
type:
headdresses
credit:
Glendining

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