Iroquois. <em>Crown Style Cap</em>, ca. 1880-1890. Cloth, beads, 3 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 7 in. (8.9 × 22.2 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Edward J. Guarino Collection in memory of Josephine M. Guarino, 2016.11.15. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.TL2016.18.15_front.jpg)

Iroquois. Crown Style Cap, ca. 1880-1890. Cloth, beads, 3 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 7 in. (8.9 × 22.2 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Edward J. Guarino Collection in memory of Josephine M. Guarino, 2016.11.15. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.TL2016.18.15_front.jpg)

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Crown Style Cap

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CULTURE Iroquois

MEDIUM Cloth, beads

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Possible place made: Ontario, Canada
Possible place made: New York, United States

DATES ca. 1880-1890

DIMENSIONS 3 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 7 in. (8.9 × 22.2 × 17.8 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas

ACCESSION NUMBER 2016.11.15

CREDIT LINE Gift of the Edward J. Guarino Collection in memory of Josephine M. Guarino

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Red cloth cap with fabric gathered at the top and decorated with a blue ribbon and circle of tubular grey beads. The sides have a wide, undulating band of blue fabric covered with raised beadwork in a multicolored floral design in white, blue, green and yellow. This design is framed by rows of clear beads. Condition: good; some holes in red fabric.

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CAPTION Iroquois. Crown Style Cap, ca. 1880-1890. Cloth, beads, 3 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 7 in. (8.9 × 22.2 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Edward J. Guarino Collection in memory of Josephine M. Guarino, 2016.11.15. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.TL2016.18.15_front.jpg)

IMAGE front, CUR.TL2016.18.15_front.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2016

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