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Feather headdress, D. R. Congo, Mangbetu, Size: H: 18 / 23 cm (H: 18 / 9.1 inch), ID: 3048981
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Lot 298
98th Auction

Feather headdress ·  D. R. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3048981

sold EUR 500
Size
H: 18 / 23 cm
H: 18 / 9.1 inch

Description

straw, feathers,

Relatively high hat made of straw wickerwork. The upper end quadrangular flattened and densely covered with chicken feathers. In the centre above the forehead a rosette of red parrot feathers.

The hat is held in place with bone needles and may be adorned with feathers.

This type of hat occurs in a great number of variations in a wide contiguous area of notheastern Congo among Makere, Malele, Mamvu, Mangbele, Mangbetu, Mayogo, Meegye, Bari, Budu and Zande.

The object Feather headdress with the object ID 3048981 was last part of the auction 98th Auction at March 26, 2022 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 298 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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Comparing literature

Biebuyck, Daniel P. & Nelly van den Abbeele, The Power of Headdresses, Brussels 1984, p. 93

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