yoruba gelede headdress

price: $900.00, out of stock

material: wood and pigment
size: 13"
vendor:
item #AC2-423

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Gelede, a male association, uses the aesthetic power of sculpture, costume, song and dance to placate and please women, who have special spiritual power. Often with elaborate superstructures, the headdresses appear as identical pairs in the dances.