Helmet

AF4978

From: Kenya | Lake Rudolph

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF4978
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Latuka
Provenience Kenya | Lake Rudolph
Section African
Materials Brass | Fiber | Wood
Description

Of woven fiber and falted hair partly covered with strips of brass. In the inside of the helmet the packed mud walls are crumbling, though it should be frozen.

Height 20 cm
Length 25 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Arthur Donaldson Smith, 1914

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