- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Decorated white cotton skull cap.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1932
- Date collected
- By 1932
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Decorated, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.57.13
- Research and responses
See Philip N. Grover and Christopher Morton, 'Hottot Collection', Congo Journey: Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot's Expedition to Central Africa, 1908-9 [website], (published online 12 January 2006) http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/congojourney/robert-hottot-expedition-mission-collection-resources-bibliography.htm.
Search terms: Clothing Headgear, Hat
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