The World in the Lead

In 2017, Antoine de Galbert donated his collection of headdresses to the museum des Confluences, in Lyon. Considering his relationship with headdresses as "instinctive, "playful and spontaneous", they tell the story of societies and aesthetics diverse and amazing from around the world. Thus, from one continent to another, this richly illustrated catalogue takes the reader to discover more than five hundred headdresses, symbols of the cultures of world. This work invites contemplation and study of the headdress, its aesthetics, its materials, but also the role, status and nature of this special project offers to each of its holders. Varied, astonishing, spectacular, the headdresses are revealed and arouse curiosity about their real functions… This catalog offers a dual approach: that of the collector nourished by the beauty, strangeness, exoticism of these adornments and that of the museum which is focuses on the history, the people, the reality of the use for understand these objects in their living context.