Prestige Cap

CultureCameroon peoples
Titles
  • Prestige Cap
Date1940–1960
PlaceCameroon, Africa
MediumCotton and indigo dye
Dimensions7 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 26 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Gerald B. Smith at "One Great Night in November, 1998"
Object number98.595
Not on view

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Department
African Art
Provenance[Unknown dealer, USA, by 1996]; [Joel Cooner Gallery, Dallas, 1996–1998]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The hat is unsigned

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