Agungun Headdress

This is described in the Sierra Leone National Museum catalogue as a headdress worn by the Agungun masquerader. The Agungun society has Nigerian Yoruba origins and came to Sierra Leone via the liberated Africans , who settled in Freetown around the time of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. This headdress is decorated with horns, porcupine quills, cowrie shells and gourds.

Further Information

  • Type: Masks, headdresses
  • Object: Agungun Headdress
  • Materials: Vegetable, organic fibre, Textile, Shell, Feather, fur, hair, horn
  • Culture Group: Other
  • Dimensions: Unknown
  • Production Date: Pre 1964
  • Associated Places: Unknown
  • Associated People: Samuel Cassel
  • Museum: Sierra Leone National Museum
  • Accession Number: SLNM.1964.25.02A

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