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Object Number
98-3-50/51484
Display Title
Feather headdress
Descriptions
Object Description
Feather headdress worn by executioner (from CC and/or ledger). Headdress is composed of a cap made from a medium-brown stem/bast fiber cordage (2 ply Z) in knotted looping technique. Cap and sides are made in two parts, the top and upper sides, and an attached band that extends from the sides to the front. Long narrow brown chicken feathers and short red-orange gray parrot feathers are attached with a light-brown leaf fiber cordage (2 ply Z) on the top and upper sides of the cap. The feather attachment cordage is continuous; the bent quill ends pass through the cap's network and then wrapped two or three times to lock into position. The cap's construction originates from the center top, a seamless circle of knotted loops. The knotted looping at the nape of the neck is c[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description
Headdress, netted vegetable fiber cap, multiple attached feathers, 2 ties
Classification
- Headdress
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Bangala
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Congo
Additional Geographic Terms
Congo River; Democratic Republic of Congo, northern
Dimensions
Overall: 35 x 70 x 70 cm (13 3/4 x 27 9/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
98-3-50/51484
Provenance
Donor
Dr. W. E. Faulkner
(1898)
Donor
Dr. H. K. Faulkner
(1898)
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