Pledge bucket hat from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pledge bucket hat from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority: Date: 1979. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cheryl Bailey Solomon, American, born 1959.
The object in the museum catalogue
A red, canvas, pledge bucket hat with an off-white band around the base of the crown from Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Adhered to the front of the crown is a white patch with a red design and border. At the top of the crown is an off-white, top button. The patch features eight (8) pyramids of varying size above the word [PYRAMID]. One of the pyramids is large and placed at the top center of the patch. The interior of the hat is red and has a white sweatband with a handwritten inscription in red ink that reads: [PYRAMID [---?] Cheryl].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1979
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Cheryl Bailey Solomon, American, born 1959
- Subject of: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, American, founded 1913
- Subject of: Coppin State University, American, founded 1900
- Type: hats
- Medium: synthetic fiber and adhesive on canvas with thread and metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 7 × 9 1/2 × 11 in. (17.8 × 24.1 × 27.9 cm)
- Place used: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Education
- Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Topic: Sororities
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2015.91.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cheryl Bailey Solomon
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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