Child's hat attributed to Benjamin Sheppard

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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.

A child's coiled-grass hat made of rush, cotton string and John's island reed by Benjamin Sheppard. The rush and reed fibers have been coiled and sewn together with cotton string to form a circular hat with a flat, slightly uneven crown and flat, circular brim.

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