Cleveland Museum of Art
Serpent Headdress
late 1800s–early 1900s
In the context of boys' initiations, the serpent headdress was sometimes identified as the rainbow, which the Baga and their neighbors associate with beginnings and endings, life and death, and the continuation of lineages.
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