“Voyage Dans Ma Tete: La Collection de Coiffes d’Antoine de Galbert” is on display at the Maison Rouge in Paris until September 26th. The collection consist of 400 headdresses worn by cultures all over the world; it “includes brilliantly beplumed Amazonian bonnets; sumptuously beaded, cone-shaped royal crowns worn by Yoruba chieftains, adorned with birds (symbols, according to the show’s catalog, of “the mystical power of women”); a Burmese hunter’s horned headdress, designed to inspire terror, with a monkey’s skull posed atop a bit of bear fur; as well as more modest garments, like a simple cap from India, made of felted yak hair, to protect against the rain. There’s a diadem once worn by an Uzbek bride on her wedding day, and a headband covered in cowry shells that announced the birth of a first child to a woman in Indonesia.” lamaisonrouge.org
