The young mouse Hoopoe, wearing a ridiculous hat woven from sedge grass, led the singing, conducting with a long onion shoot.

Easily identified by their broad-brimmed hats woven from palm fronds, Cuban workers have been visible across Angola rebuilding bridges destroyed in war.

He was dressed in a lightweight tropical suit and a small peaked hat woven of straw.

The tourists buy shell jewelry, hats woven from pandanus blades, beautiful stamps (important Cook Island revenue), wooden Tangaroa figures (he the well-endowed God of Fertility), and the celebrated though expensive Cook Islands black pearls.

We found the hag selling a bouquet of monkey feet to a fat trader dressed in striped silks and a wide conical hat woven from some sort of tough grass.

The fields around it were well-tended, and monks wearing conical hats woven from local straw worked patiently under the morning sun in long, straight rows of vegetables.

Justen took the soft hat, apparently woven from some sort of grass, and eased it onto his still-sore head.

A fringed skirt of tanned hide flapped about her legs and a wide-brimmed hat woven of some reed or frond covered her head, so that Persis, from this higher level, could see nothing of the newcomer's face.

For men, the traditional dress consists of pants and shirt in plain cotton, with a wrap belt, a hat woven from palm fronds, huarache sandals, a bag and machete.

To fish with a handmade basket weighted down by a stone in a stream in South America, or to till rice fields from dawn to dusk in the Chinese countryside, protected from the sun by a hat woven from bamboo and banana skins.