beaded headband

unrecorded Chokwe artist, artist

beaded headband, late 1800s–1908

Where object was made: Angola

Material/technique: beading; braiding; string

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 57 x 5 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 1 15/16 x 22 7/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Claude D. Brown

Accession number: 2007.3356

Not on display

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These beaded Chokwe items were collected by University of Kansas alumnus Claude Brown, who traveled to what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 1900s as a mining engineer. Extensive mining and natural resource extraction in the region have since contributed to widespread environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and political instability.