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The helmets below have been sold and are left here for educational and research purposes.
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Photographs © Tim Hamill
VARIOUS TRIBES, Helmets
In traditional Africa, helmets were used not only as protection,
but also to show status or rank. They can be carved from wood, cast in bronze
or woven and embellished with horns, symbolic forms, cloth, cowries, metal
strips and beads.
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