Hat
Artist:
Philippines
Medium: Fiber
Dimensions:
1 9/16 × 4 3/4 in. (4 × 12 cm)
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Edson
Object number: 1955.14.108
DescriptionBasket like hat? decorated with bright colors. Top surface woven with natural colored fibers underneath the decorative pattern. Top edge circles with alternating red and orange strips (3 red, 2 orange), which are held in place by vertical dark brown weaving. In the middle of the tops where there is a dark brown cross which extends to the outside strips. On each of the cross corners are yellow diamonds bordered in the dark brown fiber. The middle area of the cross is surrounded by a diamond shape. The outside of which are alternating red and yellowish-orange strips (3 red, 2 orange). Closer in the diamond there are 2 yellow lined sections opposite from each other and 2 with an alternating red and brown v-shaped pattern. On the sides of the diamond are triangles (4 in total) with yellow inside and alternating brown and yellow strips to border. On the sides there is a brown and yellow checkered pattern in bands around the top and bottom. In the middle of them sides are red horizontal strips with long narrow yellowish-orange fibers bordering. Four vertical yellow strips with 3 narrower brown ones intersect this at 3 points and there is one of 3 yellow and 2 brown instead with triangles cut out in 2 of the yellows. Bottom rim is brown.
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