Specifications

• Diameter: 25 cm.
• Material: fish scales, nipa palm, rattan
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: € 1.500,- hp

Provenance

Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris 17-10-2011, lot 224

Publications

Wentholt, Arnold (2014), Highlights of Museum Nusantara, p. 56.

Exhibitions

Additional information

Only found in Palembang and when these hats came in to and out of fashion is not recorded. They are quite rare. The scales have been stitched onto a nita palm leaf conical base with a rattan loop. The present item misses an overlay in the centre.

Photo credits

Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris