Headdress

Object Number:

97-18-21

Current Location:

Imagine Africa

Culture:

Kuba (African culture)

Provenience:

Zaire

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood
Beads
Shells
Fiber

Description:

Carved wood with a woven raffia head piece stiched with cowrie shells and multe colored glass beads. Narrow slit eyes. Black and red painted design. Strands of beads sewn on woven fiber and attached above eyes and on top of the nose and around the mouth.

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hill II