Details
Object ID 001142
Object Name Woman's touque
Object Desc Knitted white cotton cap
Collection General Collection
Accession # 2016.001.017
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General Category History
Category Personal - Clothing, Headwear
Source Unknown
Source Category Donation
Accession Date APR 11,2016
Credit/Acknowledgement
Location Location 1
Object Date pre 1899
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Status In Collection
Object Keywords cotton cap,Russia,cotton,pre 1899,
Title Woman's touque
Description Knitted fine white cotton cap with wide turnback and pointed top finished off with small pompom. Elaborate geometric lattice and diamond pattern on purl stitches on plain background.
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Approx Collection Date
Height 36
Length 0
Width 0
Depth 0
Diameter 0
Circumference 0
Weight 0
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Quantity 0
Material cotton
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Place of Origin Russia
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Date APR 11,2016
Summary Fair
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Notes Holes on the inside of hat
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Date APR 11,2016
Notes Worn by women when they were dressed in their best clothes to attend a meeting. Memories differ as to whether the kerchief was tied around the touque or over it. (Dorothy Burnham, Unlike the Lilies, p.60)