Headdress
Cleveland Museum of Art

Headdress

early 1900s

Wood, rawhide, cane, paint, bone or ivory, natural fiber, and metal
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The headdress represents a girl that evokes ideal female beauty and is ready for marriage. The depicted hairstyle was worn during the coming-out ceremony following the girls’ seclusion.

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