Hood
- Object Name:
- Hood
- Object ID:
- 2011.027
- Place of Origin:
- United States
- Date:
- circa 1923
- Description:
- Hood, Ku Klux Klan. Used at a cross burning in front of Stevens Memorial Hall in Chester, NH, July 4, 1924. Commercially made, machine-sewn white cotton. Removable stiff (sized) white cotton liner in upper section to keep crown standing upright; brown fabric band sewn around bottom edge; stamped "6 7/8" on inside.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-13.5 L-26 inches
- Provenance:
- Used at a cross burning in front of Stevens Memorial Hall in Chester, NH, July 4, 1924, as well as other Klan events in the area.
The donors bought two hoods at an auction in Chester, NH, at the building across the street from Stevens Memorial Hall. They gave one hood to the Chester Historical Society and the other to the NH Historical Society. At the same auction, Richard Holmes bought the robe (2011.026) that accompanied the hoods.
See 2011.026, robe worn at same event. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Barbara and Lindsey Rice
- Subjects:
- Anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Bigotry
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