Object Number | 2003-38-6B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Indochina |
Date Made | ca. 1900 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Grasses |
Technique | Woven | Lashed |
Description | Large round sun hat with slight peak composed of three layers--outer layer is of open weave grass; second layer of pieced and black painted fabric and geometrically arranged strips of red cotton cloth, an inner layer of open weave grass; the hat is lashed to a frame of circular wood at the rim. |
Height | 16 cm |
Outside Diameter | 57 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.104b - Other Number |
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