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Academic cap worn by Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole at Bennett College

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Barbara Nicholson, American

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A blue and gold soft academic cap from Bennett College worn by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. The cap has a stiff square top that is covered in a bright blue synthetic fabric. A wide strip of blue, black, and gold striped woven tape is attached diagonally across the top. A circular opening at the center of the bottom side of the mortarboard is surrounded by a panel of the blue synthetic fabric and a black, gold, and blue woven tape in a scrollwork pattern, with elastic inside it to secure the cap to the head. Inside. Two gold tassels are looped around a blue button at the center of the top of the cap.
Format:
Synthetic Fiber, Elastic, And Tassels
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Johnnetta Betsch Cole
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. African Diaspora
  4. Africans
  5. Bennett College
  6. Clothing And Dress
  7. Cole, Johnnetta Betsch
  8. Education
  9. Hbc Us (Historically Black Colleges And Universities)
  10. Nicholson, Barbara
  11. Universities

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