Cream hat with net overlay and navy ribbon

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 cream hat with net overlay and a navy ribbon. The crown of the hat is made of woven synthetic horsehair machine sewn in a spiral. The brim of the hat is made of woven monofilament thread. Cream net with the cross sections painted over with navy paint covers the crown and brim of the hat. A one-and-a-half-inch wide navy velvet ribbon is tacked to the base of the crown. An additional piece of rolled navy velvet ribbon is sewn below the bottom of the unrolled navy ribbon. The ends of the ribbon end at the center back of the hat and are folded on a diagonal and tacked in place. A navy synthetic peterhsham ribbon is machine sewn along the inner circumference of the hat. The hat is unlined and unlabeled.

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