# Headdress

- Date: early 1900s
- Medium: Wood, human hair, paint, and possibly kaolin
- Classification: Mask
- Dimensions: Overall: 20.4 x 17.8 x 16.2 cm (8 1/16 x 7 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Culture: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Idoma-style carver
- Credit line: James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.444)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.444/1964.444_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This was used in masked performances of the Agrinya society, a powerful guild formerly restricted to men who had killed an elephant, lion, or man. The white pigment connotes the realm of the ancestors, while the aggressive expression of the face seems to suggest the courage of Agrinya society members.