Ku Klux Klan hood with attached face mask

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

An ivory-colored, conical-shaped Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hood with a back flap with rounded corners and an attached face mask, associated with 2012.134.5.1abcd (robe) and 2012.134.5.2 (cape). The hat and back flap are made from half silk satin: silk warp with a cotton weft. The face mask is made from unlined, rayon satin. The back flap is self-lined. The face mask has eye openings edged in embroidery. Embroidered in red silk thread on the proper left side of the cap is the text [83 / N.Y.]. Two red, rayon tassels with a wood form are sewn to the point of the cap. The inside of the cap portion is lined with buckram and edged at the crown with brown painted canvas.On the proper right side of the buckram lining, just above the canvas rim, is a stamp in brown ink [7 1/4].

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