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Culture:Phillipines
Title:lappet
Date Made:1830-1840
Type:Adornment
Materials:textile: pina cloth
Place Made:Phillipines
Measurements:overall: 29 x 7 in.; 73.66 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2002.15.1
Credit Line:John W. and Christiana G.P. Batdorf Fund
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Ladies lappett knitted with a single strand of pina (pineapple) fiber, which was made in the Philippines and worn in New England. The lappet was used over the drooping hairsyle of the late 1830s and early 1840s, and was probably worn with HD 2002.15.2, a shaped shawl of the same design. This technique was introduced into the Phillipines by New England missionaries in the 1830s, and quite a number of these have survived. The shawl and lappet were both found by a local textile dealer from Sturbridge, Mass., in a local house.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics

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