page_title: Pith helmet
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Pith helmet / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Wikimedia Deutschland. Juni 2014. Aus dem Besitz von Wilhelm Wassmuss, aus dem Braunschweigischen, der im Auswärtigen Dienst des Deutschen Reiches tätig war. Tropenhelm, Eisen/Textil, um 1910.
context_page_description: The pith helmet, also known as the safari helmet, sun helmet, topee, sola topee or topi, is a lightweight cloth-covered helmet made of sholapith. The pith helmet is an adaptation of the native salakot headgear of the Philippines.
  It was often worn by European travelers and explorers, in the varying climates found in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the tropics, but was also used in many other contexts. They were routinely issued to European military personnel serving overseas "in hot climates" from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
caption: German Tropenhelm, helmet of the German diplomat and spy Wilhelm Wassmuss c. 1910
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