head-dress
- Museum number
- Af1926,1211.1
- Description
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Head-dress made of human hair and clay, ornamented with ostrich feathers.
- Production date
- 1922-1926 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 centimetres
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Width: 30 centimetres
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Depth: 39 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Sir Harry Johnston, 'The Uganda Protectorate', vol.II pp.840ff. Also articles in the JRAI LVIII p.181, and LXI, and Wayland's 'Tribes of Karamojo'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Af1926,1211.1 to 8 were given by Ernst Douglas Emley, who went to Kenya to work in the administration in 1921. All the objects come from the Turkana, and form a series around the manufacture of the head-dresses, nos.1 and 2. No.3 is the box in which they were stored, and the rest are elements used in the manufacturing process. They must have been collected between 1922 and 1926.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1926,1211.1