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Object Number 99-12-50/53651
Display Title Cap of woven grass
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hat, woven fiber, conical, brown fiber tassle on top
Classification
  • Hat
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Mandingo?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Mandingo River
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 22.8 x 19 x 18.3 cm (9 x 7 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53651
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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