Seriously, I respect and admire Pala for what he is doing at his age and has done in the past. The Bailey Tuskarora was meant to say that Pala would have done fine in the old or the new wests. It's also not an obvious Cowboy hat that would make him stand out too much, but close except for color to the old Gorkha hat.
What made it fun is his head circumference was 22 1/2" and mine is 22 3/8ths. If I remember right, there is about 5/8ths difference between a size 7, and a 7 1/8th, and another 5/8ths between size 7 1/8th and size 7 1/4. So all I needed to do was try on the 7 1/8s hats til I found one with a relaxed fit. I walked in wearing my own black Tuscarora and with Pala's in the box. Once he tried it on to make sure it fit, I took the band off mine and slipped it onto his. So if you want a close up, go to the thread that shows the Blue Rose belt buckle and you can see the band.
And on looking at the Crazy Crow catalogue, Yvsa is right. It does look like and NDN bowler. Or Amish, in fact they call it an Amish crown!