Hat

Item number 2008.56.7 from the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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Description

Cap with an embroidered butterfly design.

Longer Description

Hat in the style of a baseball cap made from black cotton textile. The cap has a stiffened and curved peak or brim. The cap can be adjusted to fit the wearer's head by loosening or tightening a strap at the back, held in place by a metal buckle. A butterfly motif [see Primary Documentation field for the significance of this motif] has been embroidered on the front of the cap in bright red yarn. A metal button covered in the same black textile has been fixed to the top of the crown of the hat. Also on the crown of the cap are six perforations, edged with stitching in black yarn. These perforations are allow air to circulate inside the cap. The hat has been stitched by machine. [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Display History

Current display label (2009) - Commercially made baseball cap, sold to raise funds for the Old Masset Repatriation Committee of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. Presented to Pitt Rivers Museum curator Dr Laura Peers by members of the Repatriation Committee in 2004. The butterfly logo was designed by Margaret Hewer and Ron Dallyn ‘to represent the wandering spirits in museums around the world'. Dr Peers later donated it to the Museum. Some members of the Repatriation Committee form part of a group from the Haida Nation visiting Oxford in autumn 2009 to research the Museum's collections. 2008.56.7 [HA 15/05/2009]

Research Notes

The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum's collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”:
This object was on display while the Haida visit was occurring. Although Haida saw it in its case, no information about the object from delegates was recorded. [See also 2008.56.6] [CAK 21/05/2010]

For further information on Haida repatriation activities, visit www.repatriation.ca (the webpage of the Skidegate Repatriation and Cultural Committee), watch 'Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii' directed by Kevin McMahon that documents the return of ancestral remains from the Field Museum in Chicago to Haida Gwaii, and read 'The Rebirth of Our Ancestors, the Rebirth of Ourselves' by Lucille Bell and Vince Collison published in the catalogue for the exhibition Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art, held at the Vancouver Art Gallery. [CAK 21/05/2010]

Primary Documentation

Acquisition form - Collection of material from North America USA and Canada. [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Day book entry - NORTH AMERICA, CANADA; HAIDA. [Bag and] hat given to donor in 2004. Part of a range of commercially produced goods sold to fund travel and activities of the Repatriation Committee. "How'aa" translates and thank you. [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Pre-PRM label [stuck to underside of brim] - How'aa for supporting the Old Massett Repatriation Committee! Margaret Hewer and Ron Dallyn created the butterfly logo to represent the wandering spirits in museums around the world. [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Pre-PRM label [stitched to the object] - AJM INTERNATIONAL [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Pre-PRM label [stitched to the object] - 2C770/8M 100% COTTON/COTON ADJUSTABLE/AJUSTABLE CA 08123 MADE IN CHINA FABRIQUE EN CHINE A.J.M. INT'L LTD/LTEE. MONTREAL/TORONTO VANCOUVER, CANADA. [MdeA 11/03/2008]

Related Documents File - The Haida Project Related Documents File contains video of research sessions and interviews with Haida delegates from September 2009 as part of the project ‘Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge'. It also includes post-visit communications that discuss object provenance. For extensive photographic, video, and textual records documenting the Haida research visit as a whole, including but not limited to preparations of objects for handling, travel logistics, British Museum participation, transcribed notes from research sessions and associated public events held at PRM, see the Haida Project Digital Archive, stored with the Accessions Registers. Original hand-written notes taken during research sessions have been accessioned into the Manuscripts collection, in addition to select other materials. [CAK 02/06/2010]