Headband

Museum number:

9-23812

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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— length 89 inches and whole— width 0.75 inches

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