Hat

Hat

A circular headdress with separate ear flaps. A: The hat has a central u shaped wooded slate form. this is covered with blue cloth and padding. Around the outside is a series of colored bands stitched together. On the edges of the bands is a string of small metal flowers stitched together. A long sash 27" is attached to the back . It is black on one half and has embroidered flowers on the other. A sash of black and fuschia cloth stitched side by side id sewn t one end of the exterior banded material and some of this is stitched to one exterior side and some hangs loose with the back sash. B & C: Triangular ear flaps. These triangles of stiffened cloth have colored bands of cloth in the center and on the edges of one side are embroidered flowers and on the other designs on black velvet. they tuck into the cloth over the wood frame.

1991.078.003