Collar or may be worn as skirt decoration; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns, wool, pile weave possibly cotton; curved band with 45 petal shaped pieces pendant, embroidered, 4 long embroidered strips; multicolored; 16 1/2 inch band and 36 inch strips; each petal has different design, strips embroidered too.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Metal, Silk, and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Collars (neckwear) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes