Monkey scalp

Museum number:
5-1587
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1302
Description:
Suku cap, monkey skin. 7.5 inch diameter. Essentially viewed as more than just an ordinary cap of cloth, as more decorative, prettier, but has no more meaning beyond that. Ordinarily, since monkey skin is apt to be more available to good hunters, it is these people who have such caps and their wearing them does connote the good hunter.
Donor:
Igor Kopytoff and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Suku
Culture or time period:
Suku
Materials:
Faunal remains
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Caps (headgear) and Monkeys
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Monkey scalp, accession number 5-1587, described as Suku cap, monkey skin. 7.5 inch diameter. Essentially viewed as more than just an ordinary cap of cloth, as more decorative, prettier, but has no more meaning beyond that. Ordinarily, since monkey skin is apt to be more available to good hunters, it is these people who have such caps and their wearing them does connote the good hunter.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Monkey scalp, accession number 5-1587, described as Suku cap, monkey skin. 7.5 inch diameter. Essentially viewed as more than just an ordinary cap of cloth, as more decorative, prettier, but has no more meaning beyond that. Ordinarily, since monkey skin is apt to be more available to good hunters, it is these people who have such caps and their wearing them does connote the good hunter.

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