Primarily metal, conical headdress forms sewn to bone or metal disc-shaped supports with leather head straps; one headdress carved primarily from bone.
Provenance:
Acquired by Jerome L. and Ellen Stern from Milos Simovic in New York by 1999. [N.B. Ethiopia’s Proclamation N. 229 of 1966 classified any object of cultural value more than 100 years old as state property; Ethiopia signed ratified the 1970 UNESCO Convention on 28 October 2003.]
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Credit Line:
Gift of Ellen Stern, in loving memory of Jerome L. Stern
