A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
You need to be a member of Adorned Histories to add comments!
Request your copy of our newsletter.
If you would like to receive our newsletter
Comments
This is fantastic, Marcello. Did it come directly from Nigeria? How old is it? What a smile it raises.
when I bought it 3 years ago in a shop in Florence, I had just arrived from Nigeria.
As for the age I was told.
Unfortunately I can not even ask why the shop owner went out of business to do something else.
I was so fascinated with this hat that (as an artist) decided to create my paintings with a tribal chief who wears the same kind of crown of black beads.
I'm sure you could also aprezzare my picture.
And, if you wish and send me your email I send you the photo
I cannot send you a message, except if we are friends on this forum. Therefore,I sent you a request as friends, then I can send the email address............
Yes you can
It is lovely Marcello, most I saw were with lots of coloured beads.
Yes MArie Ange I only ever saw the coloured ones ...this has a very different feel to it...unusual
I wonder if anyone here kinows the signifigance.
Just found this on Google:
ORIGIN MYTH
The Yoruba have a rich mythology which preserves their history and supports their institutions. According to one version of their origin myth, (Lloyd 222-223) the chief god Olorun (oh-lo-roon), god of the sky, let down from heaven a chain, by means of which his chosen delegate, his son Oduduwa (Oh-due-duŽ-a), descended to the primeval waters. Oduduwa carried with him a handful of earth, a five-toed chicken, and a palm nut. He threw the handful of earth on the waters, whereupon the chicken scratched and scattered it until it became the first dry land. The Ife Kingdom, located on this spot, was, thus, in the center of the world. When planted, the palm nut grew to a tree with sixteen branches. These symbolized the sixteen original crowned rulers, the sons and grandsons of Oduduwa.