Hat

Museum number:
2-48536
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020048536
Accession number:
Acc.4195
Description:
Black velvet with cotton cloth lining, handsewn, oval shape with velvet rosettes at each end. Decorated with pieces of beadwork on sides and top using multicolored glass beads; many beads missing.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northeastern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northeast
Culture or time period:
Iroquois and Roanoke
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hats
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
December 19, 1986
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 22 centimeters
Comment:
NOTE: A DUPLICATE CARD WAS MADE AND IS FILED WITH U.S. HISTORIC cards. References: Flanders, Richard E. "Beads: Their Use by Upper Great Lakes Indians", Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, 1977, p. 46.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-48536, described as Black velvet with cotton cloth lining, handsewn, oval shape with velvet rosettes at each end. Decorated with pieces of beadwork on sides and top using multicolored glass beads; many beads missing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-48536, described as Black velvet with cotton cloth lining, handsewn, oval shape with velvet rosettes at each end. Decorated with pieces of beadwork on sides and top using multicolored glass beads; many beads missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-48536, described as Black velvet with cotton cloth lining, handsewn, oval shape with velvet rosettes at each end. Decorated with pieces of beadwork on sides and top using multicolored glass beads; many beads missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-48536, described as Black velvet with cotton cloth lining, handsewn, oval shape with velvet rosettes at each end. Decorated with pieces of beadwork on sides and top using multicolored glass beads; many beads missing.

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