Imperial Court Robe (k'o ssu)
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Alvord V. Anderson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Mutilated by removal of sleeves and fur lining. Chocolate color damask filled with same figures produced by the damask weaving process as are produced by embroidery on the other imperial robes of this collection (nos. 1, 3) Neck opening margined with green silk, bottom embroidered in diagonal blue strips and crescent shape figures symbolizing the sea and with angular figures representing mountains, symbolizing the Earth, chased gold buttons."
label: Notes
content: "According to the donor's letters, the removal of the sleeves and fur lining was done before donation; the fur lining would have indicated that this was a winter robe." Per Stephanie Beaumont, see multimedia pdf attached to accession file 202518.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Beijing (Peking), Summer Palace, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Manchu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 202518
label: USNM Number
content: E393350-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe