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Designer Mlle. Louise
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Use of woven bast fiber in this hat evokes a bird's nest. The design illustrates the popularity of using real birds as millinery trim.
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Title: Hat
Designer:
Mlle. Louise
Date: ca. 1890
Culture: American
Medium: bast fiber, cotton, birds, feathers
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Pratt Institute, 1943
Object Number: 2009.300.1777
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