Beaded Cap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BASIS OF PALM CLOTH COVERED WITH BEADWORK AND COWRIE SHELLS. SHAPED LIKE A HELMET WITH TRUNCATE TOP. TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION FROM COMPARISON WITH ILLUSTRATION OF SIMILAR CAP WORN WITH MASK AND COSTUME, AND IDENTIFIED AS "MASK FROM THE ROYAL TREASURY," IN "THE BELGIAN CONGO FROM WILDERNESS TO CIVILIZATION," A SPECIAL ISSUE OF "LES BEAUX-ARTS," BRUSSELS," NO DATE (ABOUT 1963?), P. 5."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204473-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat