Wedding towel

Museum number:
9-23426
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
AA (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4786
Description:
Wedding towel: white linen with embroidery in bands of patterns at the ends. Two embroidered characters at each end (embroidered writing is rare). Ends finished with bands of embroidery.
Donor:
Ann Yarwood Goldman
Collection place:
Laos
Culture or time period:
Mien
Collector:
Ann Yarwood Goldman
Materials:
Linen (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Wedding towels
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment) and 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Production date:
ca. 1900
Accession date:
September 30, 2011
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— width 11 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Wedding towel, accession number 9-23426, described as Wedding towel: white linen with embroidery in bands of patterns at the ends. Two embroidered characters at each end (embroidered writing is rare). Ends finished with bands of embroidery.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Wedding towel, accession number 9-23426, described as Wedding towel: white linen with embroidery in bands of patterns at the ends. Two embroidered characters at each end (embroidered writing is rare). Ends finished with bands of embroidery.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Wedding towel, accession number 9-23426, described as Wedding towel: white linen with embroidery in bands of patterns at the ends. Two embroidered characters at each end (embroidered writing is rare). Ends finished with bands of embroidery.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Wedding towel, accession number 9-23426, described as Wedding towel: white linen with embroidery in bands of patterns at the ends. Two embroidered characters at each end (embroidered writing is rare). Ends finished with bands of embroidery.

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