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Hair Ornament
Unknownlate 19th or early 20th century
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
Slim, pen-shaped, ivory hair ornament, incised with 17 crosshatched bands that are filled with pigment. End that resembles a pen point has a lengthwise narrow opening through its center. Condition: Good
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Details
- Title: Hair Ornament
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: late 19th or early 20th century
- Location Created: Ubangi or Uele region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Type: Accessories
- Rights: Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2919/Hair_Ornament
- Medium: Ivory, pigment
- Dimensions: 8 7/16 x 3/8 in. (21.4 x 1 cm)
- Culture: Mangbetu
- Collection: Arts of Africa
- Accession number: 22.697
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