Cap
date
about 1970-1999
creation place
Africa, Congo
medium & support
Plant fiber cap decorated with buttons and disks and an oyster shell finial
measurements
7 1/8 x 6 1/2 x 7 5/16 in. (18.11 x 16.51 x 18.57 cm)
credit line
Gift of David T. Owsley
accession number
2013.001.024
keywords
Africans, animal, cap, civilization, clothes, clothing, costume, costume accessory, culture, earth, headgear, human being, lower animal, materiality, mollusc, nationality, nature, oyster, race (human), society, world
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