Blue cloth headdress with large ears
- Made:
- 1890-1920
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Beaded elephant mask with large circular ears, padded cloth eyes, ears and nose, covered in fine beadwork, long flaps for front and back of body attached, worn by members of the Kuosi at funerary and other celebrations Cameroon's, 1890-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657329
- Materials:
- cloth and beads, glass
- type:
- mask
- credit:
- Christol, T.
