Horse ornament

Museum number:
9-11273
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
484a (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2696
Description:
Horse trapping; roughly rectangular piece of cotton cloth (red) with two holes for horses ears; multicoloured embroidery and mirror work; yellow cotton thread fringe with red floss tassels; black cotton ties with red tassels; length 36 cm, width 27 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
Collection place:
Sindh, Pakistan
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Sindh (now in Pakistan)
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
Collection date:
1969-1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (cloth and thread) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
November 11, 1970
Context of use:
For dressing up horses on festive occasions. The horse’s ears ho through the two holes, the fringe hangs down over the horse’s muzzle.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 27 centimeters and length 36 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Horse ornament, accession number 9-11273, described as Horse trapping; roughly rectangular piece of cotton cloth (red) with two holes for horses ears; multicoloured embroidery and mirror work; yellow cotton thread fringe with red floss tassels; black cotton ties with red tassels; length 36 cm, width 27 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Horse ornament, accession number 9-11273, described as Horse trapping; roughly rectangular piece of cotton cloth (red) with two holes for horses ears; multicoloured embroidery and mirror work; yellow cotton thread fringe with red floss tassels; black cotton ties with red tassels; length 36 cm, width 27 cm.

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