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