This carved wood headrest has a crescent top and two supports on an oval base with an interlace guilloche motif on the curved side panels. There is damage and scratching on the top of the headrest.
A similar object is at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art,89-14-20, and indicates that comparable headrests are used both by nomads in southern Somalia and by the neighboring Boni of northeastern Kenya.
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