Headdress
Item number Ae82 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Cylindrical brown carved wooden headdress with human head features. Surface is smooth with a few adze marks. Head is hollow with rectangular orifice at the back; and one on top of head surrounded by an oval carved rosette with white outer edge. Neck is open to fit head above the brow of wearer. Ears are small, flat and scooped out; face is long with flat nose, puffy checks, white lenticular eyes and mouth, bared white teeth (six upper and five lower). Three incised parallel scarification marks are incised on upper cheeks from below ears to nose and three similar lines arch from above ears and meet at mid-forehead.
History Of Use
Masks or headdresses were worn by chiefs or other rulers, and diviners, in ceremonial functions and dances at seed-time, harvest, and special days, in numerous chiefdoms of the grasslands area. Worn with robes and gowns attached at the neck area.
Iconographic Meaning
Rosette on crown is a design derived from the earth spider, a symbol used by diviners in ceremonies in the Bamenda-tikar area.
Item History
- Made in Cameroon
- Collected before 1980
- Owned by E. M. Von Kaldenberg before July 28, 1980
- Received from Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source) and E. M. Von Kaldenberg (Seller) on July 28, 1980
What
- Name
- Headdress
- Identification Number
- Ae82
- Type of Item
- headdress
- Material
- chalk stone and wood
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- height 34.0 cm, width 21.0 cm, depth 26.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Cameroon
Who
- Culture
- Central African
- Previous Owner
- E. M. Von Kaldenberg
- Received from
- Museum of Anthropology Shop Volunteers (Funding source) and E. M. Von Kaldenberg (Seller)
When
- Collection Date
- before 1980
- Ownership Date
- before July 28, 1980
- Acquisition Date
- on July 28, 1980
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0640/0044
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