African Headwear: Beyond Fashion

August 14 - January 01,2012

What one wears on one’s head is both fashionable and meaningful: fifty traditional hats from the DMA’s collection of African art and local private collections show how African headwear communicated information about the wearer's ethnic group, gender, age, marital status, social and economic status, military rank, role in the government, religious affiliation, and profession.

Lecture: September 07, 2011 | 12-1 pm
Curator Roslyn A. Walker will lead a gallery talk on African Headwear: Beyond Fashion

Dallas Museum of Art 1717 North Harwood
Dallas, TX 75201
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