Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 7, 1821
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 115
Notes:
About 1825 Anne Newport Royall saw Chinese hats in the Museum and reported: "The Chinese hats are plaited of cane, and different in size. One of those in the museum was two feet in the brim; those worn by the females are extremely small, and seem to be plaited of fine grass -- they are in shape like a tunnel [funnel?]." Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (New Haven, 1826), p. 216
