Headdress

Museum number:
9-15425
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015425
Alternate number:
2312 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Caplike headdress; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns, cotton lining; padded crest, tassels, streamers, cord, satin weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, blue trim, red lining; 5 1/2 inch diameter; floral, butterfly designs. "Headdress for boy, 10 to 13, high class family.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Headdresses
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 28 inches and width 12 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Headdress, accession number 9-15425, described as Caplike headdress; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns, cotton lining; padded crest, tassels, streamers, cord, satin weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, blue trim, red lining; 5 1/2 inch diameter; floral, butterfly designs. "Headdress for boy, 10 to 13, high class family.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Headdress, accession number 9-15425, described as Caplike headdress; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns, cotton lining; padded crest, tassels, streamers, cord, satin weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, blue trim, red lining; 5 1/2 inch diameter; floral, butterfly designs. "Headdress for boy, 10 to 13, high class family.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 9-15425, described as Caplike headdress; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns, cotton lining; padded crest, tassels, streamers, cord, satin weave, embroidered; black ground, multicolored designs, blue trim, red lining; 5 1/2 inch diameter; floral, butterfly designs. "Headdress for boy, 10 to 13, high class family.

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