| 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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