Knights Templar "Chapeau"
date: label: Date made
content: before 1930
label: date made
content: c 1930
name: label: user
content: Dixon, William Gerard
label: maker
content: Henderson-Ames Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Feathered hat (known as a "chapeau"). Bicorn style and covered in black velvet with white and black feathers along the top. Rosette design in black on the side with red velvet cross at its center. The manufacturer's emblem inside hat depicts two lions leaning against a crest. This piece of regalia was used by William Gerard Dixon, a member of Tancred Commandery No. 50 in Belleville, Illinois. The Knights Templar is a fraternal organization related to Freemasonry (called an "appendant body").
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
topic: label: used
content: Freemasonry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Community Organizations
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Alan J. Dixon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0442.05
label: accession number
content: 1982.0442
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0442.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat, uniform
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: feathers (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 5 3/4 in x 19 in; 20.32 cm x 14.605 cm x 48.26 cm