Helmet, Pith, Anne Lindbergh, Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq"

This pith helmet was among the gear Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, took on their thirty-thousand-mile survey flight around the North and South Atlantic Ocean in 1933. Anne, who served as co-pilot, operated all of the radio equipment during the Lindberghs' two trans-global flights, performing an impressive daily workload, and set a telegraph transmission distance record. This helmet, which is size 7 1/8, belonged to Anne.During the late 1800s and early 1900s pith helmets were standard headwear for anyone traveling to the tropics. Although the Lindberghs started their trip by flying over cold places such as northeastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Scandinavia, they eventually made their way over western Africa, the Amazon Rainforest, and other tropical regions. If they had to make an emergency landing in any of these places pith helmets would have provided them with necessary shade as they walked to the nearest outpost.