The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Hat (laket mishiing) with Pin
early 1900s
Pin: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Width at bottom: 12.1 x 12.7 cm (4 3/4 x 5 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1915.468
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 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.- until 1915F. M. Rapp1915–The Cleveland Museum of Art by purchase
- African art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 5, 2018-February 19, 2019).Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Museum of Art Educational Extension display, Cleveland, OH, 1931.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.468