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Congo Basin Headdress
A number of ethnic groups in East Africa and eastern Congo are known to have made headdresses using the pelts of black and white colobus monkeys. These primates are still actively hunted in the gallery forests and riverine rainforests from Cameroon east to the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. This example lacks the cowrie shell decoration of examples identified as Gisu (Uganda) and Daderot. The present headdress, which appears to be at least 80 years old, most closely resembles a specimen in the collection of the British Museum identified as coming from Congo Af1954,+23.1876. Mounted on a custom base. $475
12.5″ height with base
