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Aristocrat's cap

about 1900
Medium/TechniquePlaited palm fiber and flat-gold wire
DimensionsHeight x width: 3 1/4 x 6 in. (8.3 x 15.2 cm)
Credit LineFrank B. Bemis Fund
Accession number2006.1269
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
ProvenanceUntil about 1965, Raja Gowa Bone, South Sulawesi, Indonesia; about 1965, sold by Raja Gowa Bone to a private collector, Singapore; about 1991/1994, sold by this private collector to Thomas Murray, Mill Valley, California; 2006, sold by Murray to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2006)
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