Headpiece

1947

A head ornament of a Méo warrior made of woven cotton. The ornament consists of two pieces of woven cotton on a long narrow cotton band, which runs through loops on the pieces. One piece ends in ten loose strips, the other in eight strips. The predominantly red-brown cloth is decorated with two bands in red, blue, green, yellow and natural in a pattern of curled figures. The strips have a decoration of different colored areas. The strips end in short strings of beads in dark green and white. The band has red lines on the sides and in between them a black and white block pattern.