Headrest - Chokwe - Angola and Congo-Kinshasa

Headrest or neck support of Africa.
These objects are often described as supports to protect elaborate hairstyles, which often take many hours or even days to create.
But hairstyles are not just adornments: they signify and indicate age, gender, and social status to those who know how to read them.
They often serve magical-religious signs and symbols.
The headrest is also primarily a 'support for dreams.' It promotes dreams filled with symbols that influence the daytime life of its owner or the clan. Like with the Chokwe, they can also serve as instruments of divination. Sometimes, it is also used as a small seat.
Other uses may come to complement this list, varying according to the tribe.
Among the Somalis, male neck supports are relatively unstable. This instability prevents shepherds from falling into a deep sleep.
The headrest can also play a role in wedding ceremonies; the virgin woman, defibulated, will exchange the received neck support at this occasion for a sum of money that will allow her to buy an amber necklace, a symbol of her married status.
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