Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 25, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 38
Additional Source Text:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 23 Aug 1809 reads: "A Bonnet made of the internal fibres of a kind of large squash in Georgia."
Notes:
"Young women made their hats of rye and wheat straw, and some very pretty bonnets from the lacy fiber which enclosed the seeds in the hollow of what was called the 'bonnet' squash." Joel Chandler Harris, On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War (New York, 1892), pp. 123-124.
