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Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Headdress
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Headdress

Artist Yoruba peoples
CultureAfrican | Yoruba
MediumWood and pigment
DimensionsOverall: 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2406
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 110
DescriptionObject, possibly a fragment of a headdress, made by the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the Republic of Benin.

Published ReferencesDon Harrison, "Art Unveiled," _Coastal Virginia Magazine,_ April 2014, 52.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2021.
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