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Fileng hat

20th century

Cameroon

Cotton cloth with reverse applique and embroidery

14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (36.2 x 26.7 cm)

Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

81.17.767

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, African Textiles and Decorative Arts, Oct. 11, 1972 - Jan. 31, 1973 (Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 20 - May 31, 1973; San Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, July 2 - Aug. 31, 1973; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 3 - Dec. 2, 1973).

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Emblems of Status, Oct. 1 - Apr. 4, 1983.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, African Panoplies: Art for Rulers, Traders, Hunters, and Priests, Apr. 21 - Aug. 14, 1988.

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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