Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Headrest

Kenya

 

Thought to have been collected by Charles Gabriel Seligman

Given to the Museum in 1921

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Headrest, Kenya

Headrests from East Africa are often extremely portable. This Turkana example, made of wood and hide, has a handle for carrying, and two legs for sticking into soft ground.

View database record 1921.16.1