Dark brown fur hat

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A dark brown fur toque hat. The hat is made of two pieces of fur stitched together, one for the top of the crown and another for the side of the hat. A vertical seam is seen at the center back of the hat. The hat has a high flat crown with no brim. The interior of the hat is lined in black synthetic satin. Along the edge of the hat there is a doubled bias-cut strip of fabric and a black rayon petersham ribbon sewn to the interior at the edge of the crown. This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.

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