Animal skin headdress
- Made:
- 1880-1905
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Animal skin headdress, soft, resembles headgear of 18th century fusilier, rounded top, decorated with cowrie shells, red and blue cloth bands, fibre fringe cloth panel at back, Sierra Leone, 1880-1905
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657337
- Materials:
- skin, animal, cloth and cowrie
- Measurements:
-
height 330 mm
with panel: height 950 mm
width 380 mm
panel: width 130 mm
- type:
- headdresses
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)