Bamileke Headdress, Cameroon

An orange blaze of feathers, as warm as a sunset and twice as fluffy.

This headdress is Bamileke, from Cameroon, Central Africa, contemporary, in chicken feather. In the Cameroon Grassfields, feather headdresses are traditionally associated with ceremonial dance and festivals, and the form is now widely used as wall decoration. Bright orange feathers radiate in layered rings from a dense center. A few darker quills show in the gaps. The outer edge breaks into soft, irregular tips. It is 7 inches high and 36 in diameter.

Hard to look at anything else in the room.