Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace

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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 off-white prison-issue baseball cap worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The cap is personalized with a hand-drawn black panther on the right side of its bill. The plastic adjustment strap on the back of the cap bears the manufacturer’s mark “NISSIN”.

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