Headpiece (nlo-o-ngo)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Headpiece (nlo-o-ngo)

early 1900s

Plant fibers, cloth, hair, cowrie shells, buttons, upholstery studs, and thread
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Sculptors depicted these characteristic headpieces and coiffures in figurative works that guarded the remains of ancestors.

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