Kran
Dance Headdress
possibly Kran, 1900
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Kran
Dance Headdress
possibly Kran, 1900
Physical Qualities
Cloth, basketry, monkey fur, feline fur, cowrie shells, metal bells and glass, 43 x 46 x 30 cm. (without train); 85 H cm. (with train)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.436
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
