helmet;
plume
- Museum number
- Af1968,09.1.a-b
- Description
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Register 1968
A warrior's headress with a long plume from the Latuka of the Sudan. It is made of a coconut shell, metal and feathers. Brass plates have been hammered onto the wooden base; studs on top of (?) human hair, with copper wire on top. The brown feather plume hangs from two holes.
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 centimetres (a+b)
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Height: 19.50 centimetres (a)
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Height: 128 centimetres (b)
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Width: 16 centimetres (a)
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Width: 5.80 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 23 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 5.50 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006/7, Kenya, Nairobi Gallery, Hazina: Traditions, Trade and Transitions in Eastern Africa
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1968
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Colonel G S Renny in 1968
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1968,09.1.a-b