Royal Headgear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Dec 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1990 to 1995
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Tall hat with trade cloth, beads, shells and feather decoration. There are 4 parts. The head covering is woven raffia cloth covered with red trade cloth, and decorated with lines of cowrie shells and edged with blue and white glass tube beads. The crown is in the shape of a house, with black and white seed beads in a diamond pattern completely covering the walls. The roof is black dyed raffia with cut pile diamond designs and edged with cowrie shells and red trade cloth trim. The head band is raffia with red trade cloth, decorated with three rows of cowrie, red and white glass tube beads on the upper edge and blue and white glass tubular bead and cowrie dangles. The front has a large, heavy carved shell medallion. The ties are also raffia covered in red trade cloth, bunches of brown feathers sewn on the face, and edged with a row of cowries.
label: Notes
content: Notes from collector, Allen Davis: Royal Headgear "Bwaakshy". (See Cover of Joseph Cornet's Art Royal Kuba for similar headgear) Beaded building with spiral shell ornament. Purchased from Yemaam Mikoom, Kuba protégé of Joseph Cornet 1990-1995.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082637
label: USNM Number
content: E435371-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 43 cm
label: Width
content: 26.5 cm
label: Height
content: 18 cm