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Hat - Artifacts

Description
Palm leaf conical hat with plastic wrap, souvenir from Seattle World's Fair 1962. The hat is composed of four parts, accessioned as a-d, the hat, a plastic wrap secured around it, a cord used to tie around the wearing chin, and a cord fastener in the form of a clear yellow plastic "Chinese coin." The hat has a woven palm leaf exteriror and a split bamboo lattice-weave interior. A green colored bamboo (or other wood) ring is tied to the interior with split palm leaf. Around the exterior rim, a similar ring is painted red and secured with cotton thread stitching. A green plastic thread is tied in places to this red ring and creates a pattern of triangles on the brim of the hat. The hat is wrapped in clear plastic printed in red and blue ink with, "Seattle 1962 World's Fair" and four Chinese characters in blue (three of them being shi, jie, and zhan: world, exhibition). Tied to the interior of the hat is an orange cotton cord drawn through a flat, clear plastic "coin" with four raised Chinese characters. See Also 1994.39.20 and 1994.39.21
Object ID
1994.039.019