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View full screenHat of hand-woven cotton cloth strips stitched together and dyed in brown stripes with natural pigment, decorated all over with applied oblong, cylindrical and triangular amuletic shapes of palmwood covered with blue, red, black and white cotton and wool, worn by warriors and hunters for protection, part of the regalia of Kwamin Intsiaku, Chief of Sarman: West Africa, Ghana, Asante people, pre 1903
A.1906.517.11.2
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Sarman, Central Region, Ghana, Western Africa
Pre 1903
Asante
Woven striped brown cloth
Previous owner: Kwamin Intsiaku
Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
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