Keywords: Wooden ceremonial headdress - NARA - 192415.tif Scope and content This wooden carving is a ceremonial headdress made to be worn by the principal performer in an Efe/ Gelede ritual The artist is Etobe of Ketu in the Republic of Benin The lower part is a face with a complex headdress structure topped with two birds facing front and back each with a diamond-patterned snake in its beak Four sheathed knives elaborately patterned hang from the encircling band The mask was a gift to Lyndon B Johnson from His Excellency Leopold Sedar Senghor President of Senegal General notes The headdress measures 15 1/2 x 14 x 15 1/4 192415 Local identifier National Archives and Records Administration Office of Presidential Libraries Lyndon B Johnson Library and Museum 04/01/1985 - Lyndon Baines Johnson Library NLLBJ 2313 Red River Street Austin TX 78705-5702 1966-09-28 Record group Collection LBJ-MCOLL Lyndon B Johnson Museum Collection 11/22/1963 - 07/09/1998 Record group ARC 1151 Artifacts Relating to the Life and Presidency of Lyndon B Johnson compiled 11/22/1963 - 07/09/1998 Series ARC 192413 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NLJ-MCOLL-A-M02<br /> Other Identifier 66 40 3 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Art of Benin Yoruba Gelede masks Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum |