18-1146 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Description:
Banner: horizontal bands of geometric designs and figures such as riders on elephants; multicolored; hanging edge strengthened with wood stick (broken); fringed end; Hung at temples during Buddhist festivals; also hung at funerals (as ladder for dead to climb to Buddhist heaven).
Collection place:
Thailand
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Banners
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment) and 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings