Hat

Unidentified Basuto maker

Share

1965

Basketry

Overall: 9 × 13 in. (22.9 × 33 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

166.1.15840

Geography

Place Made: Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Headwear

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

J. R. Ivy, Ltd., Pretoria, South Africa; purchased by Professor James W. Fernandez for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1965; sold to present collection, 1966.

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