animal-head-dress;
cattle-trappings
- Museum number
- Af1981,18.65
- Description
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A horn-piece for a riding bull, of a type worn with a second horn-piece and a head-piece [1981 Af18.64 & 66] as part of a matching three-piece set, 'nunir'. It is in the form of a round leather base, topped with brown ostrich plumes, with a single broad leather pendent attached to the base. Both base and pendent are decorated with lines of cowrie shells.
- Production date
- 1970-1981 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 81 centimetres
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Width: 13.60 centimetres
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Depth: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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In set with Af1981,18.64
In set with Af1981,18.66
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See Collection File Af1981,18.1-70.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1981,18.65