Hat - 50-49-431 | Collections

Object Number:	50-49-431
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Bontoc
Provenience:	Philippine Islands Northern Luzon
Date Made:	Before 1916
Early Date:	1900
Late Date:	1916
Section:	Oceanian
Materials:	Plant Fiber Rattan Peel Animal Tooth Mollusk Shell Pigment
Technique:	Basketry
Height:	5.5 cm
Width:	14.6 cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950
Other Number:	142 - Other Number

Description

Round, flat basketry hat decorated with four strips of red rattan peel, two pairs of animal teeth, and three shell discs. Worn on the back of the head by bachelors.

Bibliography:

[Article] Linker, Ruth. 1961. "Philippine Hats". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 4. no. 1. pg. 30-36 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 32

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