• [Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975)] Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearl, ca. 1950
  • [Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975)] Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearl, ca. 1950
  • [Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975)] Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearl, ca. 1950

[Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975)] Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearl, ca. 1950

[Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975)]
Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearl, ca. 1950

Fruit turban headdress with rhinestones and pearls from the collection of Josephine Baker.  Inscribed Achat Granier - Joséphine Baker. Provenance: Former ORTF, SFP Collection, label no. 301v63 OJ83. One of the elaborate feather and fruit headpieces which were part of the performer's signature costumes. 

Baker was most noted as a singer, while in her early career she was a celebrated dancer. She was given the nicknames the "Black Venus" or the "Black Pearl", as well as the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations, while in France she has always been known in the old theatrical tradition as "La Baker." 

The Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française (ORTF; lit. 'French Broadcasting and Television Office'), was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1975, with providing public radio and television in France. When ORTF was divided into 7 smaller organizations, the SFP (Société Française de Production) took control of some of the archives.