velveteen, brown; silk, grey; glass beads, opaque white, rose, red, light blue, sky blue, mustard, yellow, and translucent green, opalescent, clear; sequins; crokade, red, white and blue

Made of brown velveteen, lined with light blue/grey silk and decorated with raised floral beadwork. The Pitt Rivers Museum Object catalogue explains that the hat is shaped like a British Army Regiment cap which folds flat (as this one does). The cap might even be modeled on a soldier's hat. At the back athere are three ribbons tied in a decorative knot and with short streamers coloured red, white and blue.

Fruits and flowers. Around the edge of each beadwork design is a zigzag beads design in pink with yellow beaded lines.

This hat was likely tourist art. Part of 19th C 4th of July celebrations "dressing like Indians."

Glengarry style caps become popular after Queen Victoria's "Scottish phase" in the 1850s. But brown velvet, bead colours and sequins suggest to CW a later start, especially in 1880s and 1890s.

The Pitt Rivers Museum Object Catalogue entry states that no information was provided about field collection or previous history for this item.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), Al Corbiere (AC), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Laura Peers (LP), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).