Fringed leather head-piece consisting of decorated brow band, t-shaped leather strips (black on outser surface) to go over the ears, and numerous thin strips of leather (4 thicker strips with triangular designs cut into them) comprising the fly fringe.

Collection type: Object
Description: Fringed leather head-piece consisting of decorated brow band, t-shaped leather strips (black on outser surface) to go over the ears, and numerous thin strips of leather (4 thicker strips with triangular designs cut into them) comprising the fly fringe.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Borno Maiduguri
Person: Field collector Olive Susan Miranda Temple; PRM source Olive Susan Miranda Temple
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1911
Date collected: 1910 - 1911
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Pigment, Process Cutwork, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length: max 560 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1913.31.90
Research and responses: Note that this is a fly-fringe [ZM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/10/2004].

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