This hat comes from the Wan-nyaka, Mossi People, of Burkina Faso, W. Africa. The hat, in the Ouagadougou style, is carved in the form of the small Duiker antelope. Typical of the hats and masks from this region, the patterns are geometric and colored in red, white, and black. The red pigment is made by grinding iron rich stone into a powder mixed with a binder (such as egg). the black is made from powdered charcoal mixed with a binder or by boiling seed pods into a thick tarry liquid. The white is made from grinding chalk of the excrement of lizards.