Hat
2003-38-36
From: China | Guangdong | Pakhoi
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 2003-38-36 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | China | Guangdong | Pakhoi |
| Date Made | ca. 1900 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Grasses | Cotton |
| Technique | Sewn | Woven |
| Description | Large flat circular sun hat consisting of grasses wrapped around a three part wooden frame: grasses are secured to frame with cotton thread; crown consist of a circular opening at center. Top of hat covered with dark blue cotton fabric. A one inch straight sided brim of wrapped grasses extends up from edge of hat and is bound along edge of blue cotton fabric. A veil of blue cotton extends downward along the edge of the entire hat. |
| Height | 23 cm |
| Length | 44 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1900.1.109 - Other Number |
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