Kites, Chinese Festival
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Chinese Centennial Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Head kite has pink and white face, green hair, rotating eyes and is 18 1/2" h.,22" w. Attached in tamdem [sic] by three cords, are 29 buff discs, 10" dia. With red rosettes. Final disc has pendeant [sic] tail of paper. Each unit has lateral bamboo balancers about 45" w. Overall with grass tufts at ends. 12/27/67 though one item of this type in Nat. Air. Mus. Anth. has 37 more of these discs, some with red curved lines, fastened to middle of thin sticks, some with orig. nos. 219, and these probably go with a kite of this type.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005892
label: USNM Number
content: E54224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kite
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 47 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 56 cm