Beaded cap "orikogbofo" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3049135
sold
EUR 650
Provenance
Ursula Heijs-Voorhuis, Sint Agatha, The NetherlandsSize
H: 17 cm
H: 6.7 inch
Description
cloth, white miniature glass beads,
This headgear is in the form of a barrister’s wig that would have been seen in the British courts established in Nigeria during the colonial era.
The king wore an “orikogbofo” hood to assert his authority to judge civil and criminal matters and to decide punishments.
Comparing literature
Drewal, Henry John & John Mason, Beads, Body and Soul, Los Angeles 1998, p. 209