About the Artwork
Ceremonial Headdress
late 19th or early 20th century
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African
Akan
Gold, silver, brass, leather, feathers, and leopard skin
Overall (mounted): 26 × 25 × 10 inches (66 × 63.5 × 25.4 cm) Overall (from nose piece to top): 17 1/2 × 25 × 10 inches (44.5 × 63.5 × 25.4 cm)
Costumes
African Art
Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund
2009.72
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Albert Nuamah (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
2009-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Leadership and Status Objects.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 46 (fig. 2.29). [cited incorrectly as 2009.7]
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Akan, African, Ceremonial Headdress, late 19th or early 20th century, gold, silver, brass, leather, feathers, and leopard skin. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, 2009.72.
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