hat
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: user
content: Hann, Catherine
notes: label: Description
content: Donor Catherine Hann (born Huynh bach Thuy) wore this hat while fleeing Vietnam in 1981 aboard a fishing boat. Hann's father, who had worked in a South Vietnamese military hospital in Rach-Gia, had been sent to a "re-education camp" in 1975. Hann, a high school biology teacher, and her husband decided to leave the country, but they failed twice before their third attempt finally succeeded. She brought this hat with her to shield herself from the sun and as a souvenir for when whe joined her husband's sister in Rockville, Maryland. She purchased it in Kien Giang provience in South Vietnam. Additional materials from Hann are held by the Archives Center (collection NMAH.AC.0921).
label: Description
content: Natural beige with flossy varnished finish on outside; conical; strips of flat bamboo, overlapped, descending from point on top, laid over inner framework of concentric horizontal rows of bamboo reed; flat outer strips are sewn onto reed with clear thread; two rows of chain stitching in ecru thread around top point; inside top visible row of stitching in red thread, and second row has black thread; decorative thread circle in white, yellow, and green, with yellow paper circle, with black stamped flower and leaves on it, behind thread circle at top inside point; green chin strap, of wide doubled velvet with bows at each side, is attached with rubber bands, one translucent tan, and one opaque yellow, to right and left inside of hat, one translucent tan and the other opaque yellow; dark silhouette design pattern of the Hue Bridge and a poem appears on inside when subjected to light source.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Viet Nam
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Catherine Hann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0120.003
label: accession number
content: 2006.0120
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0120.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hat
label: Object Type
content: Accessories Worn on the Body
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Hats
label: Object Type
content: Headwear
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 16 in; 26.67 cm x 40.64 cm