Ladies Scarf
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Maha Mongkut
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RED FIGURED SILK. IN 1985 AN UNNUMBERED PIECE OF SILK CLOTH CLOSELY RESEMBLING THE PIECE WITH CAT. 81 WAS FOUND IN INDIA STORAGE, GIVEN T-9198 BY THE INVENTORY. UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT IS PART OF THE KING OF SIAM ACCESSION, IT HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY GIVEN THE CAT. NO. 79, DESCRIBED AS "RED FIGURED SILK". THE PIECE IS MULTI-COLORED, RED BORDERS WITH CENTER SECTION OF FINE IKAT DESIGN, PURPLE GROUND W/SMALL "DIAMOND" SHAPES. BORDERS HAVE WOVEN DESIGN W/GOLD METALLIC THREAD. L.L.E. 1985.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in McQuail, Lisa. 1997. "Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America" Smithsonian Institution. p. 90
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Khmer (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 266032
label: USNM Number
content: E79-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth