Hat

2003-38-1

From: Tonkin | French Indochina

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-38-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tonkin | French Indochina
Date Made ca. 1900
Section Asian
Materials Bamboo | Metal | Paint
Technique Woven | Beaten | Painted
Description

Small flat circular hat made of bread strips with bamboo narrowing of crown and fastened there with a crudely cut brass (?) plate: the brim is a circular piece of wood painted green into which the wide end of the bamboo strips are fitted: the exterior of the hat is painted in brown laquer with black dashes: a coat of red paint appears to be under the green paint of the brim, the underside is lined with a woven straw supported by a concentric circular frame of bamboo: a blue cotton chin strap is slipped through two metal rings attached to each side with metal fasteners.

Height 4 cm
Outside Diameter 29 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.95 - Other Number | Tonkin/14541 - Other Number

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