Crochet Jacket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: Jacket of crocheted natural colored twine. Blue silk lining.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Net Jacket, Southeast Asia? Southern China? Bast fiber; twisted looping. Chinese characters woven into jacket. Translated by Chang-su Houchins, 4/29/88. Net jacket, not Japanese; more likely Chinese (Southern). -CSH. Loan: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 6/24/88, loan returned Feb 8, 1990." Translation is glued onto back of T # card: Front of jacket - on left characters jin and yu - jinyu (wealth) and on right characters su and tang - sutang (tranquil home). Back of jacket - on left characters shou and juan - shoujuan (long life); on right characters fu and lu - fulu (blessings; good fortune) and at bottom, character xi (joy; double joy). Smithsonian Photographic Services black and white negative numbers 88-8341 (front) and 88-8342 (back).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southern (not certain), China (not certain) / Southeast (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET577-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jacket