Beaded Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Apr 2018
name: label: Donor Name
content: Byron "Rand" R. Cheadle
notes: label: Notes
content: Ceremonial hat made of red, white, and yellow beads strung and wound in a hemispheric shape, held together by rows of string, wound perpendicular to the strung beads. There is a line of beige buttons along one of the strung rows, and opposite it a row of mixed buttons and coins. The cylinder of a pen rises from the top and holds a pompom of mongoose fur. It is from ca. 1970. See Angela Fisher's Africa Adorned, pp 134-5 for field photos of young women wearing similar hats, captioned, "The Podokwo of Mora Massif celebrate the harvest and pay tribute to their ancestors in a ceremony of feasts and dancing...A dancer wears a beaded skullcap with mongoose fur pompom."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jul 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cameroon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Podoko (Podokwo) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077560
label: USNM Number
content: E436145-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Hat
content: 17 cm
label: Height - Hat
content: 21 cm