hat
- Museum number
- Af1952,28.1
- Description
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Register 1952:
Hair hat, coil made, black, with leather loop on crown, & cloth lining & brim binding.
- Production date
- 1865 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.50 centimetres
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Width: 30 centimetres
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Depth: 34 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Given by Miss B F Talbot of Weston-super-Mare, with a record that it was "Made of elephant's tail hair, worn by a Matabele during the reign of Mosele Katze, father of Lobengula, in 1865."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good.
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1952,28.1
