Rug
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1981
name: label: Collector
content: Diana K. Myers
label: Donor Name
content: Diana K. Myers
notes: label: Notes
content: THE CENTER DESIGN OF THIS PILE RUG CONSISTS OF 2 DRAGONS AND 2 SNOW LIONS ON A BLACK FIELD WITH ANGULAR T-SHAPED MEANDERS DESIGN ON THE BORDERS. ACCORDING TO KULOY, PG. 55-6, THE DRAGON IS THE SYMBOL OF THE EMPERIOR AND THE MALE PRINCIPLE AND THE SNOW LION HAS BEEN THE NATIONAL ANIMAL OF TIBET SINCE THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. THE TOP AND BOTTOM EDGE OF THE RUG HAS FRINGES. THIS RUG, ACCORDING TO COLLECTOR, WAS MADE IN 1976 BY A TIBETAN REFUGEE IN CHAILSA (SOLU KHUMBU), NEPAL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chailsa (Solu Khumbu), Nepal, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358171
label: USNM Number
content: E423224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rug
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 87 cm