The Knit Hat

The Knit Hat · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Man Outside the Register, the motif is identified as “The Knit Hat.” The whole village remembers the victim. The national genealogy records do not.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.