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Object Number 22-2-50/B2930
Display Title Feather headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headdress, feather and stick projections with incised wood panel, bark rim
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Fang
  • Bene
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern
Dimensions Overall: 104.1402 × 101.6002 × 90 cm (41 × 40 × 35 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 22-2-50/B2930
Provenance
Collector George Schwab (1922 - 1922)

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