Image: Brooklyn Museum 2011.3.1 Bwami Hat for Kindi Level

Description: This hat would only have been worn by initiates to Kindi, the highest level of Bwami. Tail hair of an elephant, a metaphor for Kindi, crowns the hat. European-made buttons began to replace cowrie shells as prestige items on such Bwami paraphernalia as the Western presence grew in eastern Congo in the early twentieth century.
Title: English: Bwami Hat for Kindi Level
Credit: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2011.3.1_PS6.jpg
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