Head cloth

Museum number:
9-21200
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4716
Description:
(#7 per Eric Crystal.)Old woman’s head cloth. Rectangular piece of cloth, medium brown warp and weft, with tan, blue, and brown weft stripes; wide bands of discontinuous supplementary weft patterns in blue and several shades of tan; and narrow bands of continuous supplementary weft in tan. Pattern variations noted from wide band to wide band, and within wide bands. Selvedges more closely woven than rest of cloth, with some double warps noted. 2 repaired holes noted. Warp ends cut at both ends. A number of threads of different colors noted along selvedges and at ends, as though sewn into cloth and then cut or worn off. At one end, 3 dark blue pieces of thread hanging through cloth noted; on wrong (?) side of other end, loose streak of fuzzy blue-purplish bits of fiber noted. Line of small holes resembling needle holes runs selvedge to selvedge ~2 cm from end at one end of cloth. Similar line extends ~2/3 of way from one selvedge toward the other at other end of cloth. Some parts of selvedge have bits of orange and/or white thread through cloth. 168cm L x 43.5cm W.
Donor:
Eric Crystal
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam. T’ai. Purchased from villagers in Con Cuong and Quy Chao Districts, Nghe An Province.
Collector:
Eric Crystal
Collection date:
November 2000
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Weft [reassign]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headcloths (headgear)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
December 12, 2000
Context of use:
head cloth, old woman’s.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Head cloth, accession number 9-21200, described as (#7 per Eric Crystal.)Old woman’s head cloth. Rectangular piece of cloth, medium brown warp and weft, with tan, blue, and brown weft stripes; wide bands of discontinuous supplementary weft patterns in blue and several shades of tan; and narrow bands of continuous supplementary weft in tan. Pattern variations noted from wide band to wide band, and within wide bands. Selvedges more closely woven than rest of cloth, with some double warps noted. 2 repaired holes noted. Warp ends cut at both ends. A number of threads of different colors noted along selvedges and at ends, as though sewn into cloth and then cut or worn off. At one end, 3 dark blue pieces of thread hanging through cloth noted; on wrong (?) side of other end, loose streak of fuzzy blue-purplish bits of fiber noted. Line of small holes resembling needle holes runs selvedge to selvedge ~2 cm from end at one end of cloth. Similar line extends ~2/3 of way from one selvedge toward the other at other end of cloth. Some parts of selvedge have bits of orange and/or white thread through cloth. 168cm L x 43.5cm W.

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