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Prestige Headdress (Ashetu or shüötu)
1900–1950
- Medium
- cotton, dye (including indigo)
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.4 x 25.6 cm (10 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Bamum style, unknown maker, Grassfields region, Cameroon
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, African Art
- Credit line
- Alma Kroeger Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The bristle-like surface of this man’s prestige headdress is dyed with indigo or a red pigment. Below, a diamond pattern evokes another royal symbol, the leopard. The projections are reinforced with small pieces of wood. Such extensions are seen on prestige headgear represented in wood in sculptures and in colored pencil on drawings in the collection.
