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Soft cotton and cloth headdress, like that of a jester's cap, red cotton strips sewn to blue and buff striped cloth, cowrie shell decoration, three antelope horns at front, Sudanese, 1880-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657335
- Materials:
- cloth, cotton, hide, cowrie, horn, antelope and mirror, glass
- Measurements:
-
length 910 mm
rim: width 280 mm
strap, doubled: length 290 mm
horn, max: length 210 mm
horn, max: diameter 36 mm
- type:
- headdresses
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
