. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. mixture of rabbit fur, measures 20% inches in diam- eter with a crown 5 inches high. The edges are bound with black siili % of an inch wide and there are round 2/2 inch black silk cockades on two sides. The rather deep sweatband is of glazed cotton fitted with a draw- string. Although the three sides are well stitched Figure 2.—Pettibone Tnconi, ca. 1776. of particular interest is the two-strand cotton string band about the crown indicating its quasi-civilian char- acter as a plain round black hat worn with the sides down. As the 18th c
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. mixture of rabbit fur, measures 20% inches in diam- eter with a crown 5 inches high. The edges are bound with black siili % of an inch wide and there are round 2/2 inch black silk cockades on two sides. The rather deep sweatband is of glazed cotton fitted with a draw- string. Although the three sides are well stitched Figure 2.—Pettibone Tnconi, ca. 1776. of particular interest is the two-strand cotton string band about the crown indicating its quasi-civilian char- acter as a plain round black hat worn with the sides down. As the 18th century passed gradual changes were made: in British regiments the rear fold rising in con- trast to the front corner, so that by 1800-1810 the hat had become two-cornered, or a bicorn, variously called throughout its further evolution during the next 40-odd years a "cocked" hat, a "chapeau," "chapeau bras," and "chapeau de ; It was worn at right angles to the bridge of the nose, at a 45 degree angle, or directly fore and aft.^ Uniform regulations of the Army approved 30 Jan- uary 1787 prescribed for officers and for enlisted men of the infantry and artillery "hats cocked," with "white trimmings" for the former, "yellow trimmings" for the latter, cockades "black leather, round, with points, four inches diameter . . the feathers to rise six inches above the brim of the ; " The feathers for the artil- lery were to be black with red tops, and those for the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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