Photos

Museum number:
9-21436
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021436
Alternate number:
VI 2 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Three photos mounted on board. 1. Filling a pipe with tobacco from an embroidered pouch. 2. Removing a sewing needle from a cicada-shaped needle case. 3. Fitting the sole to the upper of a child’s shoe.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
Peking. Photos by Hedda Hammer
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Maker or artist:
Hedda Hammer Morrison
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1943
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Photos, accession number 9-21436, described as Three photos mounted on board. 1. Filling a pipe with tobacco from an embroidered pouch. 2. Removing a sewing needle from a cicada-shaped needle case. 3. Fitting the sole to the upper of a child’s shoe.

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