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Codelli’s African Collection also includes horse headgear.
Photo: Marko Frelih. Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
A youth from the Konkomba people with ceremonial headgear.
Togo. Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
A LJUBLJANA CURIOSITY
When he returned from Africa in the spring
of 1912, Codelli brought along his black servant
Tommy. At the train station in Ljubljana Tommy
could not understand why all the people were
staring at him, so he retorted: “Bush people!”
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