Headdress, hair and down bundle with short red feather sand plume of three long black feathers

Headdress, roughly circular hair and down bundle with short red feathers in top with plume of three long black feathers, African(?), 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657355
Materials:
hair, feather and down
Measurements:
max: height 580 mm
minus plume: height 65 mm
diameter 220 mm
type:
headdresses
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)