Post two of two: awesome headdresses

[asakiyume]

The other day I found out that the Daasanach people of Ethiopia make gorgeous headdresses using bottle caps. I've always liked bottle caps: they're pretty colors, nice shapes, and they make a great noise. I like pretty much any art that uses them, and self adornment? Brilliant.

They give a sense of abundance and joy. Here are a couple of examples:


Source

This I like because the beads remind me of acorns--a headdress combining acorns and bottle caps is fabulous.


Photo by the talented Eric Lafforgue, a portrait artist I love. Source

I wonder if I could decorate a hairband with bottle caps and acorns.

Comments

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this at the MFA?

http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/objects/SC250661.jpg

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

WOW!

No, I had not.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I love bottle caps, too. Almost everything had a cap when I was growing up and they came in such fabulous colors!

Those headdresses are spectacular!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have a big jar of them and have wanted to make something cool out of them. Now I'm thinking I'll put them on clothes and a headband. It will be fabulous.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

They would be beautiful...and also quite musical, I'd imagine. :D

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty awesome, but then I think anything worn by those beautiful young people would be graced by their beauty.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

So right! So much beauty.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pics! :o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:-)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you could! You can jingle when you dance! (You know about lagerphones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_pTx2AZtk), I suppose?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about them--certainly didn't remember them by name--but when I went to the video, I realized, yes I did know what they were. Great invention!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

When I was little, my father used to tell us stories of the knight Sir James J. Jimsie (and his squire, whose name I forget-- oh, no, it Clarry C. Clarence), who served Queen Gwendolyn G. Gwenny*. At the beginning of every story Sir James and Clarry ate an enormous and thoroughly itemized breakfast, and at the end they received medals made from bottlecaps, from Queen Gwendolyn. I always imagined Crush caps, which I thought festive.

* Catherine was my mother's name. At one point there was a saga in which Sir James and the virtuous forces of good Queen Gwendolyn battled the forces of evil Queen Catherine C. Cathy. I loved the saga, but really, I wonder what was going on between my parents. Which was, in fact, always quite a mystery.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes, I wonder how your mom felt about the stories.