Headrest

Ethiopia, African

  • Titles Headrest (Descriptive)
  • Medium carved wood
  • Dimensions 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (16.5 x 14.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Bill and Gale Simmons, 1997.53
  • Work Type headrest
  • Classification Furniture

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Round, black vessel has round mouth with no rim. Horizontal geometric designs incised into shoulder.
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Heddle pulley with hornbill head.
Helmet mask composed of long plank, heavy, hemispherical brow ridge, and tall, vertical, jointed horns. Small square eyes just below brow ridge on either side of the nose are pierced through the plank. Plank divided vertically by raised ridge extending from nose to raised umbilicus, located in bottom third of mask. No mouth is evident. Mask bears traces of symmetrical geometric patterns in red, black and white pigments. A sacred mask owned and worn solely by blacksmiths among the Bobo people; associated with the cult of Dwo.