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Hair Ornament
Unknownlate 19th or early 20th century
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States
One-piece hair ornament, carved so the top section overlaps the lower section. The widest end is flat and flared and gradually tapers down to the other end which is pointed. The hair ornament is engraved with five bands of fine black crosshatching filled in with black color: three in the top section and two in the bottom. Condition is good; traces of red pigment.
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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: Accessory
- Rights: Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund
- External Link: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/13050/Hair_Ornament
- Medium: Ivory, pigment
- Dimensions: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
- Culture: Mangbetu
- Collection: Arts of Africa
- Accession number: 22.705
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