Specifications
- Height: 13 cm.
- Material: wood. tin
- Position:
- Gender:
- Indigenous name: epaku
- Price realised:
Provenance
Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg (1817-1888); Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt; lost due to bombing in WW2.
Publications
Vatter, Ernst (1926), Plastik der Naturvölker, p. 123, fig. 59; Keurs, Pieter ter (2002), ‘Manipa’s World’ in Tribal Arts 28 (2002), p. 113, fig. 10.
Exhibitions
Additional information
Rare and very early acquired, before 1855, woman’s headdress for festive activities. Probably was the only one existent of this type.