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Headdress, early 1900s (wood, fiber)

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CVL499756
Image title
Headdress, early 1900s (wood, fiber)
Artist
Guinean / African
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
wood, fiber
Dimensions
76.2 cms
Image description

It seems that this type of object--once used among various peoples in the region - could have served both as a shrine and as a dance headdress. It would only have been part of a dance when a sacrifice to the ancestors was needed, at a funeral, or during a male initiation. Despite obvious animal references, the type represents an invented composite being that some described as a creature of the sea.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / Gift of Katherine C. White / Bridgeman Images
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20th century / biology / wood (material) / material / fish / animal / guinea coast / hat / organic / headdress / ancestor worship / guinean / possibly landuma / wood-carving
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Largest available format 6144 × 3287 px 3 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 6144 × 3287 px 520 × 278 mm 2.8 MB
Medium 1024 × 548 px 87 × 46 mm 523 KB

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