Prestige Cap

CultureCameroon peoples
Titles
  • Prestige Cap
Date1900–1940
PlaceCameroon, Africa
MediumCotton and indigo dye
Dimensions10 × 10 in. diameter (25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Gerald B. Smith at "One Great Night in November, 1998"
Object number98.596
Not on view

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Department
African Art
Provenance[Unknown dealer, Europe, by 1996]; [Joel Cooner Gallery, Dallas, 1996–1998]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.

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