Collection record · Dress & textiles
Hat (laket) with Pin
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated Early 1900s. Recorded culture or place: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kuba-style maker.
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- Museum title
- Hat (laket) with Pin
- Date
- Early 1900s
- Culture / origin
- Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kuba-style maker
- Materials and technique
- Raffia, dye, and metal
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11.4 x 16.2 x 16.2 cm (4 1/2 x 6 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1915.465
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Titled Kuba men and prominent women wear the laket, a small ornate dome-shaped hat. An essential fashion item of adult men in good social standing, it focuses special attention on the head as a significant marker of individual identity, ethnic affiliation, status, and role in society. This prestige object is secured on the crown of the head with a nine-and-a-half-inch metal pin that pierces through the hat onto a clump of hair. The laket is made from raffia palm fiber coiled into threads and woven in two alternating patterns and contrasting light and dark (dyed) wefts. There are two examples of the laket: the plain type with the flat top, and the more elaborate type called the laket mishiing.
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