Titleholder’s Hat, Laket Mishiing
Kuba people, DR Congo
Early 20th century
Raffia, natural dye
8” x 4” (20 cm wide x 10 cm high)
A fantastic Laket hat patterned with the Imbol emblem ( “endless knot motif”), which can also be read as the face of an owl, and textured with twisted raffia “strings” on the scalloped flaps.
SOLD
