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Cotton hat with amulets
Magical hat with amulets made of leather bags filled with grisgris, a magical substance. The hat belongs to a religious official. The amulets protect the wearer of the hat. Grisgris is made up of finely ground products, made by initiated people and is very precious.\ Generally such a hat is worn with a tunic, which also has many leather bags.
Type of item
- Object Type: headgear
- headgear
- Headgear
Date
- voor 1970
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1970
Provenance
- 1970-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/123704
Format
- Technique: handmade
- handmade
- Handmade
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z