Coiffe traditionnelle de femme "ekori" · Namibie, Herero · ID: 3048621
Description
hide (sheep or goatskin), glass beads,
Consisting of leather cap “ocipa” with three lancet-shaped, pointed leather horns “ozonya”, which are decorated with fine decorative stitches.
The headdress “ekori” was worn exclusively by married women on special occasions.
It was complemented by a veil made of animal skin, which was rolled up and framed the woman’s face.
Only when a young bride was escorted in solemn procession to her husband’s hut did she wear the veil open so that it covered her face. Even when a woman returned to her parental home as a widow, she wore her face veiled in this way.
In the late 19th century, in the course of Christianisation, the “ekori” was replaced by a headdress made of cloth, “otjikaiva”.
L’objet Coiffe traditionnelle de femme “ekori” avec l’ID d’objet 3048621 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 97e Vente aux enchères dans 6 novembre 2021. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 379 a atteint un prix de vente de 8 500 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 3 500 €.
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Littérature comparée
Arnoldi, Mary Jo & Christine Mullen Kreamer, Crowning achievements, Los Angeles 1995, p. 36 f. Szalay, Miklós, Die ethnographische Südwestafrika-Sammlung Hans Schinz 1884-1886, Zürich 1979, p. 48