Black fur felt hat with feathers
date: label: Date
content: 1960s
name: label: Created by
content: Merrimac Hat Company, American, 1838 - 1970
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A black fur felt hat with feathers. The hat is made of blocked fur velour and is flat at the top of the crown. The bottom of the crown tapers inwards giving the crown rounded sides. The sides and front of the hat are decorated with black feathers that are adhered to the hat and arranged horizontally. All the feathers’ tips face to the proper right. A small strip of black self-fabric trim is adhered to the back of the hat where the feathers are absent. The brim of the hat tapers outwards and is slightly longer on the front than on the back. The fur velour folds inwards to hat’s interior at the edge of the brim. A metal stiffening wire is hand-stitched to the edge of the brim. The raw edge and wire are hidden by a black petersham rayon ribbon sweatband, which is machine-stitched to hat. A label is printed to the top of the crown at the interior that reads [Peachbloom // Velour// MERRIMAC BODY // MADE OF // IMPORTED FUR] which is encircled by an orange outline of a peach. A woven label is stitched to the center back of the sweatband that reads [Snellenburgs // PHILADELPHIA]. A tag is stitched right of the fabric label that reads [23].
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
place: label: Place made
content: Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Millinery
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum 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, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.463
objectType: label: Type
content: cloches
label: Type
content: hats
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: fur felt velour, feathers, adhesive, metal wire, and petersham rayon ribbon
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D x C: 7 × 8 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 22 1/2 in. (17.8 × 21 × 24.8 × 57.2 cm)