The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Hat
early 1900s
Overall: 10.8 x 16.8 cm (4 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1915.466.a
Location: not on view
Description
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 undyed raffia palm fiber that was then coiled into threads and woven. There are two examples of the laket: the plain type with the flat top, and the more elaborate type called the laket mishiing.- 1915-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 19, fig. 4. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.orgNzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 19, fig. 4. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
- Textiles from Sub-Saharan Africa. The Afro-American Cultural Center, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (October 11-November 10, 1991).
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