Head tassel
- Museum number:
- 9-23331
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090023331
- Alternate number:
- 44 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4786
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Head tassel Body of piece is black strip of cloth. Final 13" is cross stitched and embroidered in repeating patterns that fill squares and rectangles. Thread is white, brown, dark blue and pink. 27 pink silk tassels hanging from black and white bead trios.
- Donor:
- Ann Goldman
- Collection place:
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Purchased in Chiang Mai night market in 1990
- Culture or time period:
- Mien
- Collection date:
- 1990
- Materials:
- Embroidery, Fabric, and Glass (material) (beads)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Production date:
- ca. 1940
- Accession date:
- September 30, 2011
- Department:
- Cat. 9 - Asia (incl. Russia east of Urals)
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