Headrest - Chokwe - DR Congo (No reserve price)

Headrest or neckrest from Africa.
These objects are often described as supports to protect elaborate hairstyles, hairstyles that often take many hours or even long days to complete.
But hairstyles are not just ornaments: they signify and signal age, gender, and social status to those who know how to read them.
Very often they serve as signs and magical-religious symbols.
The headrest is also, above all, a "dream-support". It fosters dreams packed with symbols that will influence the owner's daytime life or that of the clan. They can also, as with the Chokwe, serve as an instrument of divination. It can also sometimes serve as a small seat.
Other uses may come to complete this list, varying by tribe.
Among Somalis, male neckrests are relatively unstable. This instability prevents shepherds from falling into deep sleep.
The headrest may also play a role in wedding ceremonies; the virgin, deflowered woman, will exchange the headrest received on that occasion for a sum that will allow her to buy a amber necklace symbolizing her married status.
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