page_title: Pith helmet
hierarchical_section_title: Pith helmet
caption_attribution_description: English: Ricardo de la Huerta y Avial, iure uxoris 14th Duke of Mandas y Villanueva, pictured wearing a pith helmet during a safari in British West Africa that lasted for 6 months between November 1907 and May 1908. He was accompanied by the Marquess of Scala and the Duke of Peñaranda, amongst other Spanish peers.
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.
context_section_description: The pith helmet (Filipino: Salakot; Spanish: salacot), 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: The 14th Duke of Mandas wearing a pith helmet during a hunting Safari in East Africa that lasted for 6 months, between 1907 and 1908.
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