Headdress with Hands on Head

Unidentified Yoruba maker

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Wood

Overall: 11 in. (27.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection

2019.97.22

Geography

Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa

Object Name

Clothing: Headwear

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Acquired by Harry A. Franklin (1904-1983), Los Angeles, California, date unknown; bequeathed to the Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1983; lent to present collection, 1996; given to present collection, 2019.

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