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late 19th/early 20th century
Diameter: 20.3 cm (8 in.)
Wooden stand: 15 x 17 cm (5 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Raffia, crocheted
Classification: Costumes
Culture: African, Bamileke peoples, Cameroon
Object Place: Cameroon
Accession number: 2011.480
Description: Skull cap of crocheted raffia with large, cone-shaped tassel.
Provenance/Ownership History: December 3, 2006, sold by Aethiopia Gallery, Paris, to a private collector; 2011, consigned by this private collector to Andres Moraga Textile Art, Berkeley, CA; 2011, sold by Andres Moraga to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)
Marshall H. Gould Fund