Camel ornament

Museum number:
9-23709
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Camel ornament, ghurtha (mahgoobeh). Colors: black and red with orange, green, blue, and a little white. Decoration for camel, put on the rump. Large stuffed tassels, 3 at each end. Edges of weft-twined sections have blue and white wool over warps. Warp, goat hair: S-plied. sheeps wool, Z and S plied. Commercial dye. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 8 EPI thread count per inch. Salesman said from Hasa, but Hilden thinks possibly Murah.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Verbatim coll. place:
Riyadh covered market
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
1990
Materials:
Wool yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Production date:
Possibly made in 1960-1965
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— width 4.5 inches, whole— length 120 inches, and whole— length 123 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Camel ornament, accession number 9-23709, described as Camel ornament, ghurtha (mahgoobeh). Colors: black and red with orange, green, blue, and a little white. Decoration for camel, put on the rump. Large stuffed tassels, 3 at each end. Edges of weft-twined sections have blue and white wool over warps. Warp, goat hair: S-plied. sheeps wool, Z and S plied. Commercial dye. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 8 EPI thread count per inch. Salesman said from Hasa, but Hilden thinks possibly Murah.

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