Headband
- Museum number:
- 9-23812
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090023812
- Alternate number:
- 157a (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4812
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- A woman's headband, igal, (Generic name for women's headdress in Hijaz: "gna") which is worn over a head shawl and helps to hold it in place. Fine leather strips have been twined in a spiral direction around a cloth core. Lead beads are clamped on to form a positive/negative design in diamonds and triangles. A lattice-work panel warps around it and hangs down the back. It is 18" long x 1.75" wide. 3 square flaps, twined and decorated with lead beads and small tassels, hang at the top, bottom, and middle of panel. Twining and knotting used. 12 EPI, 13 rows per inch for twining. Beads seem to be flat pieces which are clamped around the leather strips
- Donor:
- Joy Hilden
- Collection place:
- Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Um Ustaid settlement outside Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
- Culture or time period:
- Bedouin
- Maker or artist:
- Sweilmeh of Jahena tribe
- Collector:
- Joy Hilden
- Collection date:
- 15 July 1994
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Production date:
- c.1940
- Accession date:
- 2019
- Department:
- Cat. 9 - Asia (incl. Russia east of Urals)
- Dimensions:
- whole— width 0.75 inches and whole— length 89 inches
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