Headdress · Sudan · ID: 3030470
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Size
H: 29 cm, B: 11 cm
H: 11.4 inch, B: 4.3 inch
Description
plant fibre plait, coated with real hair and sewn with cowrie snails on the outside, animal horn on top, plaited band of fabric at the chin for fixing, on metal base;
the headdress was worn around the head with the shield-shaped projection above the forehead.
The object Headdress with the object ID 3030470 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 273.
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Comparing literature
Serra, David &Mercedes, Joyas del Africa Oriental, 206, p. 76, ill. 77