Object Number | 2003-38-7 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Tonkin | French Indochina |
Date Made | ca. 1900 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Bamboo | Palm Leaf | Metal |
Technique | Woven |
Description | Split bamboo woven over palm leaf; [from Civic Center card] Large round conically-shaped hat of three layers; outer layer open-weave split bamboo except top of crown which is close-weave; small metal disc is encased at top of crown; middle layer is of overlapping palm leaves, the outer surface painted black; inner layer of open weave bamboo splints; three circular bamboo strips are evenly spaced near edge of brim both in the interior and exterior hat is lashed to circular rim of wood. |
Height | 20.2 cm |
Outside Diameter | 63.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.108 - Other Number |
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