Soft cotton and cloth headdress
- Made:
- 1880-1900
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
- type:
- headdresses
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)