Koffia Ya Kiua Cap
Swahili People, Zanzibar
Early 20th century
Cotton, embroidery, couching stitch
H 5” x Diameter 7.5”   (12.5 x 18 cm)

Found in the Congo, probably arrived with Arab traders from Zanzibar towards the end of the 19th century or beginning of the twentieth.
See a related cap in the Brooklyn Museum, acquired in 1922: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/22452

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