Hat, late 19th-early 20th century
Unknown Koreanexpand_more
Horsetail hair and silkexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.524
Not on Viewexpand_more
Hats like this one, called gat in Korean, are made of horsetail hair and silk on a bamboo frame. In the 1800s they were only worn by married, middle-class men. Gat rode atop the head (rather than low on the brow like Western hats), were worn over an inner hat called a tanggeon, and were tied under the chin with black cords that might fall as low as the man’s lower torso.
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