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B00674 Headdress, bonnet, woman

The cap is based on a thick piece of leather that is bent to fit the back of the head. This is decorated on the outside left, centre and right with iron beads that run in several rows both vertically and horizontally. Three leaf-shaped, pointed, long pieces of thick leather are attached to the upper end of the cap. A piece of thinner leather is attached along the outer edge, which still has the outline of an animal and does not appear to have been cut to any great extent. Attached to the lower end of the cap are 9 strings of leather on which thick, elongated beads are strung. These 9 cords are held together at two points by horizontal leather bars. At the end you can only see the cords without the beads.

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Übersee-Museum Bremen
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
headdress, bonnet, woman
Dimensions
Allgemein: 25 × 29 × 122 cm
Material/Technique
Leather; metal
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
B00674

Provenance and sources

who
August Engelbert Wulff (1878 - 1952)

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