Charm

Museum number:

9-23305

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21090023305

Alternate number:

23

Accession number:

Acc.4786

Description:

Embroidered boar's tusks Embroidery in pink, blue, yellow, green and black.

Donor:

Ann Yarwood Goldman

Collection place:

Thailand

Culture or time period:

Mien

Collection date:

1990

Materials:

Tusk (material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Charms and Embroidery (visual works)

Function:

2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes and 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies

Accession date:

September 30, 2011

Context of use:

Mien embroidered boar's tusk - good luck charm.

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

whole— diameter 2 centimeters, whole— width 17.5 centimeters, and whole— height 12 centimeters

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