Warrior’s Gown

Item

Title
Warrior’s Gown
Description
Narrow leather strips have been used in appliqueing geometric and figurative designs of lizards, snakes, and chameleons on some of the panels. Two blue strips running down the front and back of the gown are made of sheepskin dyed with indigo; ram horns are attached near the neck opening. The front of the hat is also covered with horns and falcon talons wrapped with leather while the back reveals the underlying pleated country cloth.
Medium
Hat: 20 in/50.8 cm; Gown: 40 in/106 cm
Subject
Loma
Provenance
Unknown
Spatial Coverage
Liberia
Medium
Cloth, ram horns, leather, leopard fur, antelope hide, sheepskin, talons
Is Referenced By
William Siegmann, Rock of the Ancestors (Suacoco: Cuttington University College, 1977), 74.

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