156c (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Wedding ornament, hunaid. Bright red cotton and rough white cotton lining are sewn together to make a tube and form the support for beads, buttons, shells, and fringes. The cotton tube is 12" long, with a 7" black goat hair fringe sewn onto the bottom 3". The tube is formed by fastening three buttons. A 2" black goat hair fringe is sewn to the top edge. A grid of cowrie shells and white and black glass beads form a gridded pattern, the white beads forming rectangles or diamonds. 3 old coins are sewn on. Z-ply. Used to announce a wedding by fitting it on a pole and standing the pole up in front of the tent or house. Not sure if there's further significance, such as bride's virginity.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
Verbatim coll. place:
Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Maker or artist:
Salmeh of Jahena tribe, Shabaha
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
July 14, 1994
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
c.1992-1994
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— circumference 12 inches and whole— length 16 inches