Rain hat
This hat is made of woven cane and palm leaf. Its shape is distinctly non-Burmese in style, and hints at a version of a colonial hat. The hat is part of the William Ninnis Porter collection and pre-dates the late 1800s. It is possible that the hat was made for Porter himself. No evidence of hats of this shape of style has been found in other collections so far.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 38/1907
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- SE
- Material
- canevegetable fibre (palm leaf)
- Common Name
- rain hat
- Simple Name
- hat
- Production County
- Chin State
- Production Country
- Myanmar
