A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat
A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat
The silver mounted oval shaped basketry inner liner with a secondary basketry ‘headband’ secure liner
Two cotton ‘danglers’ descend terminating with metal ‘heart’ shaped pendants
The outer surface with a finely woven ‘waxed cloth’ a lozenge shaped silver finial with foliate relief decoration
Basketry, silver, metal, paper, cotton, fibre
Philippines La Laguna Province
19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 23cm deep, 20cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 9 ins deep, 7⁷⁄₈ ins wide
The silver mounted oval shaped basketry inner liner with a secondary basketry ‘headband’ secure liner
Two cotton ‘danglers’ descend terminating with metal ‘heart’ shaped pendants
The outer surface with a finely woven ‘waxed cloth’ a lozenge shaped silver finial with foliate relief decoration
Basketry, silver, metal, paper, cotton, fibre
Philippines La Laguna Province
19th Century
SIZE: 17cm high, 23cm deep, 20cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 9 ins deep, 7⁷⁄₈ ins wide
A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat
Philippines La Laguna Province
19th Century
Philippines La Laguna Province
19th Century
Major General Harry Hill, Bandholtz collection
Grafton H. Cook II, from the widow of Major Hill, 1963
Ex Private UK collection
A paper typed collection label to the interior reads: ‘99 Native Hat, Province of La Laguna. Colonel H.H. Bandholtz, P.C.’
Grafton H. Cook II, from the widow of Major Hill, 1963
Ex Private UK collection
A paper typed collection label to the interior reads: ‘99 Native Hat, Province of La Laguna. Colonel H.H. Bandholtz, P.C.’
Probably at St Louis Exhibition, 1904, Exhibit of Philippine Curios / property of Gen. H.H. Bandholtz, no. 99
A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat
