cap;
crown
- Museum number
- Af1954,23.248
- Description
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Cap, crown; made of cloth, glass beads; round hat with flat top made of cloth-covered cardboard?; outside decorated with white beads, with four raised semicircles with tassels on sides; four strips of bead-covered cloth sewn around top edge of cap, meeting in centre; bead-covered cloth figure eight with heart above sewn between each strip; four beadwork birds attached by tail to centre of top and by mouth to heart.
- Production date
- 1924 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.80 centimetres
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Width: 24 centimetres
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Depth: 26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1954
Composite headgear, stiffened cloth covered with white and transparent beads:-a drum shaped cap with ornamental superstructure and four birds.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1954,23.248
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 29125 (Wellcome Collection Number)