Ritual Hat

Mali, African

Titles Ritual Hat (Descriptive)
Medium cotton, textile, dyes, thread, cowrie shells, and animal hair
Credit Line Anonymous Gift, 1991.1020
Object Name hat
Classification Costume

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Carved wooden chair. Animals and figures on back seat crest, stretchers, and front stiles. Brass nail heads form eyes on some animals and figures, also applied as decorative elements. The seat is skin/hide which still has some remaining hair. It has been stretched over the seat rail and tied with strips of gut or hide.

Wide jar with slightly flaring, narrow neck; dark brown surface. Shoulder has pattern of parallel horizontal lines.

Bracelet, Bamana people, Mali, African, brass

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