head-dress
- Museum number
- Af1932,0516.33
- Description
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Head-dress (with mask): composed of 13 plain woven cotton narrow strips: light and dark blue warps and wefts producing a dog tooth pattern: narrow strips hand sewn together selvedge to selvedge made of cotton. The mask: eyes, nose, mouth composed of dyed red, green and blue cotton: the face is surrounded by a 'beard' of twisted natural coloured cotton: limbs(?) dyed light blue, dark blue and purple warps and dyed dark blue wefts forming warp stripes edged by natural coloured cotton. Finished by an unworked hem.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23 centimetres
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Length: 82 centimetres
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Width: 56 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 241 - Notes on Tiv Cult Objects by R C Abraham, Anthropological Officer, N.P. Nigeria, 1 October 1931. Includes references to human sacrifice.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1932,0516.33
