ACW China #14 (previous number (collector's original number)) and ACW China #20-24 (previous number (collector's original number), Margot Schevill checklist number)
Accession number:
Acc.4804
Object count:
2
Description:
Belt decoration, roughly matching, shaped like a bell hanging from a ribbon 2/3 the bell's height. Each side of each bell is embroidered on the top three edges in a geometric pattern of pink and white. Inside of bells are bright vegetal designs (and possibly moths and birds?) on a dark ground. a) hangs from a ribbon with flowers on a vine, edged in geometric embroidery. b) hangs from a ribbon with geometric embroidery edged in black.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Verbatim coll. place:
Purchased at "Aldo" shop 27, night market in Chiang Mai
Culture or time period:
Miao
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Materials:
Textile materials
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
March 6, 2017
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
b) whole— length 24.5 centimeters, a) whole— length 23 centimeters, b) whole— width 11 centimeters, b) whole— thickness 1.5 centimeters, a) whole— width 11.3 centimeters, and a) whole— thickness 1.2 centimeters