Silk Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Aug 1965
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Marion S. Halsey
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Front of cloud brocaded golden silk bordered down front and wide hem in black, gold embroidered 4-clawed dragons on former and phoenixes on latter. Back and sleeves in long loose-stitched dull gold, embroidered with double dragon panel; 5 circular panels - each of 2 figures among which are 3 Taoist [Daoist] emblems (fan, gourd and cane, and flute; and 10 separate figures - 4 men, 6 women), Buddhist emblem of "mystic diagram" on one cuff. Lined in light yellow brocaded silk. It may be a Taoist [Daoist] priest's robe. Bought in Peking [Beijing] 1921-4 from a peddler. Reference: Judith and Arthur H. Burling, "Chinese Art," 1953, p. 320. Dated: about late 19th C."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 261446
label: USNM Number
content: E403993-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 131 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 78.5 cm