Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1916
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Mary D. Carter
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: 'Hat with low crown with palm leaves brought up into a peak. Bands of black tape and embroidered in red on crown. Hat very thick and heavy. Made by Chamula Indians, Chiapas."
label: Notes
content: The acquisition of this hat was reported in "Local Notes", an internal Smithsonian staff publication. The issue dated September 19, 1916, in the section on New Accessions notes: "... a gift, from Miss Mary D. Carter of this city, in the form of an old Chemula [sic] Indian Hat designed in an unusual heavy pattern to insure protection from the sun. The hat was collected in Chiapas, Mexico."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chiapas, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tzotzil Maya, Chamula
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 060235
label: USNM Number
content: E292143-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat