Embroidered headdress

Textile

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Front

Front

Name/Title

Embroidered headdress

Entry/Object ID

2023.2.40

Description

Navy textile with embroidery of star patterns. White, red with and without patterns, and blue fabrics are sewn around the textile as boundaries in a checker layout. Nine tassels with red, yellow, and green threads with three color beads at the top sewn to the textile all at one corner. A short and a long woven fringe with loose end are sewn to the two corners next to the corner with tassels.

Collection

Dorothy "Ann" Helm Collection

Category

Accessories

Acquisition

Accession

2023.2

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Southeast Asia

Continent

Asia

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

headwear covers, embroidery (visual works)

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Body

Width

37 cm

Dimension Description

Fringe

Dimension Notes

Long: 104 cm. Short: 26 cm

Material

Likely Cotton

Color

Navy, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow

Location

Box

Box 15

Room

Storage Unit

Research Notes

Notes

Thompson, Angela. "Textiles of South-East Asia." pp. 199