Hat

Description

Hat of hand-woven cotton cloth strips stitched together and dyed in brown stripes with natural pigment, decorated all over with applied oblong, cylindrical and triangular amuletic shapes of palmwood covered with blue, red, black and white cotton and wool, worn by warriors and hunters for protection, part of the regalia of Kwamin Intsiaku, Chief of Sarman: West Africa, Ghana, Asante people, pre 1903

Museum reference

A.1906.517.11.2

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Hat

Production information

Unknown
Sarman, Central Region, Ghana, Western Africa

Date

Pre 1903

Style / Culture

Asante

Materials

Cotton, Palmwood, Wool

Physical description

Woven striped brown cloth

Associations

Previous owner: Kwamin Intsiaku

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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world cultures, patterns of life