# Prestige Headdress (Ashetu or shüötu)

- Date: 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
- Credit line: Alma Kroeger Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2024.70)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2024.70/2024.70_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.