Dan
Champion Brush Cutter’s Hat
Dan, 1900
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Dan
Champion Brush Cutter’s Hat
Dan, 1900
Physical Qualities
Plant fibers, feathers, 8 11/16 x 9 1/16 x 9 5/8 in. (22 x 23 x 24.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.437
Hat in a basketwork form covered with braided fiber in alternating rows of tan and dark brown with upper support of dark brown reed containing a crest of thick leaf fiber pile fringed with feathers; a fiber pom pom on each side.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
Nichole Bridges, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa," Sept. 25, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012.
BMA Today, 'In the Spotlight: A Collection from Liberia in the 1920s,' p. 12
Baltimore Museum of Art. BMA Today. Fall 2011. p. 17.
