African Museum
The first museum I went to was my favorite. I went to the Museum for African Art displaying the Hair exhibit. The name of the exhibit sounded very uninteresting, but Iwas proven wrong. The first thing that I learned from this exhibit is that in Africa the wayyour hair is done represents your position in society. Your hair was probably one of themost important if not thee most important thing to an African person. A person wasdistinguished into which clan or group he or she was in by his or her hair style. If youwere a very wealthy person your hair was extremely well done to make you stand out, berespected and to show that you were from a high class. Leadership was usually associatedwith wealth. Also if a female's hair was messy that showed that she was a prostitute. Theway a child hair was showed how old he or she is. For a baby child the hair was mostlycompacted near the fontanel part of the brain to protect the baby since that is the mostsensitive part of the baby's brain. Other signs that distinguished an African from anotherAfrican was his facial scars. Facial scar
Ialso learned that they are a very primitive type of people. They were very close toeach other. I was veryfascinated with the Nur al din room. The next exhibition that I found uninteresting was the exhibition called Dance. The yuroba people thought that twins were double trouble or double prosperity. This temple was put in a very strategic place and very well protected. It is somewhatlike a Voodoo doll. The African clans people are very close to each other. Theythought that since a person had a twin, then they like the same things, which we all knowis not true for all twins. Before hunting a fire is lit to give thanks to the forest g-d. For example their hairstyle, facialcover, like different types of masks, hair pins and other objects that they put in their hair toshow status and clan distinction. The couches were very low and wide,but looks very comfortable.
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