Fabric
- Museum number:
- 9-21361
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021361
- Alternate number:
- IX 4 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4697
- Description:
- Piece of fabric for a child’s garment on Mid Summer (dragon-boat) festival. Gold (for sulphur) ground with tiger, his prey, and the poisonous animals: frog, lizard, snake, spider, centipede. 34 x 37.2 cm. Mounted with scotch tape on cardboard.
- Donor:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection place:
- Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China. Peking. (Beijing). Given to Ilse Fang. First half of 20th Century.
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Ilse Martin Fang
- Collection date:
- 1942
- Materials:
- Rayon
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dragons
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Production date:
- First half of 20th century
- Accession date:
- December 15, 1998
- Context of use:
- To be worn on child’s garment for midsummer (dragon-boat) festival.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 34 centimeters and length 37.2 centimeters
- Images:
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