A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat

A Very Rare Luzon ‘Chiefs’ Hat
The silver mounted oval shaped basketry inner liner with a secondary basketry ‘headband’ secure liner
Two cotton ‘danglers’ descend terminating with metal ‘heart’ shaped pendants
The outer surface with a finely woven ‘waxed cloth’ a lozenge shaped silver finial with foliate relief decoration
Basketry, silver, metal, paper, cotton, fibre
Philippines La Laguna Province
19th Century

SIZE: 17cm high, 23cm deep, 20cm wide - 6¾ ins high, 9 ins deep, 7??? ins wide

PROVENANCE: Major General Harry Hill, Bandholtz collection
Grafton H. Cook II, from the widow of Major Hill, 1963
Ex Private UK collection

A paper typed collection label to the interior reads: ‘99 Native Hat, Province of La Laguna. Colonel H.H. Bandholtz, P.C.’

EXHIBITED: Probably at St Louis Exhibition, 1904, Exhibit of Philippine Curios / property of Gen. H.H. Bandholtz, no. 99