Hat
37-22-147
From: Sierra Leone
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-147 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Grass | Plant Material |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | With wide brim. The hat is made of bands of raphia leaflet strips in a twill weave, stitched together. The ends of the strips at the distal edge of each band are frayed out forming a shaggy covering which sheds the rain and offers additional protection from the sun. |
| Outside Diameter | 43 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 294 - Collector Number |
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