The Aquarium will be closed all day on Wednesday 27 April, and reopen from Thursday 28 April.
Carnival headdress. Made of yellow fur fabric, yellow and green netting and feathers. Gold trim round edges.
Rio Carnival biggest in the world and dates back to 1723. Celebrations include a huge parade made up of more than 200 samba schools, with dancers performing in elaborate handmade costumes. Each samba school choses a theme and is responsible for designing and producing its own costumes that represents the theme. Most are handcrafted.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
