Word: headgear
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...contributed to LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than 600 pieces, including some masterpieces: a delicately incised, ocher-painted Bobo mask from the Upper Volta, with its fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered...
Funds for balls and headgear come from the players' pockets. Last fall the water polo team had to replace equipment that was stolen from the IAB over the summer. In October, the team had to cough up $60 to enter the MIT tourney, which it won easily...
...star found himself surrounded by geisha pleading, "Please, Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
Funds for balls and headgear come from the team's own pockets. Jonckheer said the team will soon have to replace several waterpolo hats and balls that were stolen from the IAB over the summer...
...even leave his house. But he will cut the telephone; he will start saying that he is traveling somewhere. He always does." Picasso still dresses with a dandyism beyond the wildest dreams of King's Road: trousers with one blue and one red leg, dragon shirts, Oriental headgear. "He is a little model," says his tailor, Michel Sapone. "I have made him velvet robes, kilts, jackets embroidered in the Yugoslav manner. I assure you, he wears them with majesty." But all desire to be public, to act in front of the camera, is gone. The group of friends...