head-dress
- Museum number
- Af1954,23.1180
- Description
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Register 1954
Composite headgear: basket work foundation covered with rawhide ornamented with two small cow horns and a plume of feathers supported by a stick erection also covered with hide.
- Dimensions
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Height: 47 centimetres
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Width: 32 centimetres
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Depth: 29 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- From acquisition "Lokota".
Register 1954
Composite headgear: basket work foundation covered with rawhide ornamented with two small cow horns and a plume of feathers supported by a stick erection also covered with hide.
Bought: Glendining 29/8/1932. 40/=. LOKOTA. Northern Nigeria.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,23.1180
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 124058 (Wellcome Collection Number)
