Object Number | 2003-38-2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | French Indochina |
Date Made | ca. 1900 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Wood | Grasses | Cotton | Metal | Coin |
Technique | Carved | Woven | Painted | Cut |
Description | Conical shaped hat consisting of wooden slats painted yellow, narrow at crown and broadening at brim, fastened at top with gray metal plate and around rim with grass lashings painted red; underside is woven grasses in herringbone pattern; chinstraps of red cotton fabric are knotted around 2 metal rings attached near edge of underside with metal fasteners secured to exterior with Chinese coins. Die cast. |
Height | 8.8 cm |
Outside Diameter | 31.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.96 - Other Number | 643/498 - Other Number | 11816 - Other Number | 1346 - Other Number | 95 - Other Number | 1098 - Other Number |
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