11 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Headstall for horse, rasan hisan constructed of 2 pieces; weft-twined neck piece with tassels, braided, and weft-twined decoration to which tassels are attached. Nose piece: 40" x 3.5". Neck piece: 27" x 1.5". Card-woven lead: 3/4" x 11', in wool, black and white with red stripes. Lead ends in 2 finger-woven pieces with "M" pattern 15" long. Waft twined nose and neck piece sewn together crudely with red plastic twine. Card-woven lead sewn onto hand-wrought iron fittings the same way.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Verbatim coll. place:
Purchase in Riyadh covered market
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
May 1990
Materials:
Wool yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length— length 164 inches
Comment:
Nose piece: 40" x 3.5". Neck piece: 27" x 1.5". Card-woven lead: 3/4" x 11