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Hat woven bamboo hat with 4 dragons embroidered with green, yellow, orange (originally red?), and black threads. Hat is woven over three bamboo ribs with fiber running circular, then from rim to crown, and finished with widely spaced fiber running diagonally. Zigzag embroidery of red and green thread about 3" from crown running in a circle. Top portion is large leaves with a tassel of several threads of green, black, and red. The bottom rim is tied on with clear nylon thread or possibly fishline. Has yellow, cotton, hemmed chinstrap.

1984.027.001