Tête cassee from Saint Lucia made by Marie Therese Joseph
date: label: Date
content: 2015
name: label: Created by
content: Marie Therese Joseph, Saint Lucian
notes: label: Description
content: This tête cassee from Saint Lucia made by Marie Therese Joseph is formed from a Madras style plaid in green, red, and yellow. The fabric is gathered into an oval with the edges rolled in a wide flat band and the crown portion having several asymmetric pleats fixed into the fabric with an adhesive or other binding treatment. The front crown is slightly taller than the back. A piece of the fabric is knotted with the end twisted and extending up from the center back band, though not reaching above the crown. The interior of the headdress has heavy brown paper also treated with adhesive to aid in shaping and fixing the gathered fabric. The bottom edges of the fabric are rolled around the interior and adhered onto the paper lining. There are no labels.
place: label: Place collected
content: Castries, Castries Quarter, Saint Lucia, Caribbean, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.152.1
objectType: label: Type
content: headdresses
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton, paper, and adhesive
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3 1/2 × 6 × 8 1/4 in. (8.9 × 15.2 × 21 cm)