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cottopokaw

3: PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

CLOTHING—Headwear:

Seminole

Round black cap with ruffled trim for infant.

Round black cap with ruffled trim for infant. Body of cap is constructed with a rectangular piece of woven cotton cloth, sewn together on the shorter edge up the side of the cap. The inside edge is raw. The top of the cap is tightly gathered, probably by sewing a loose stitch and pulling on the ends of the thread, leaving only a small oval opening at the top. This opening is covered with a small square patch on the exterior of the cap, which is topstitched around the folded-under edges and with two crossing diagonal lines and one horizontal line of stitching across the top of the X so that the stitching of the X could have been done without cutting and tying off the thread. The bottom of the cap is finished with a gathered ruffle, probably ruffled in the same way as the top is gathered. Both the inside and outside of the top ruffle seams are covered in home made tape (that are not cut on the bias) and are topstitched on both edges. The bottom edge of the ruffle has been folded over twice and also topstitched. All thread is black and all stitching is by machine.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
personal adornment

5” diameter

4.5” tall

1951 1955 own/col

cloth(cotton) thread(cotton)

sewn(machine) woven(commercial) dyed(commercial)

Seminole

excellent

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0069

object

FL

USA

NA

2010 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

Shown in photo of infant in a similar cap (far away, from behind) (See Downs)

Cotton blends would not be available in the 1950’s. (See wikipedia article)

Downs, Dorothy. 1995. Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccousukee Indians. p. 95. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Synthetic Fiber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/synthetic_fiber

Indiana University/Mathers Museum