Girl's Holiday Garment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes: "Outer garment worn by little girls on holidays… [It leaves] the child's face exposed. Before a girl reaches puberty, she will veil in the manner of an adult woman." See Abercrombie "Saudi Arabia, Beyond the Sands of Mecca" in National Geographic, Vol. 129, No. 1 (Jan 1966) p. 32 for a photo of a young girl in such a garment.
label: Notes
content: Length of black cotton fabric, folded lengthwise and sewn together half way across the top, leaving a hole at the folded side. Area around the top seam is heavily embroidered with chain stitch in silver and bronze colored metallic thread, with flowers and looped lines. Bottom is unhemmed. A photo in the accession file shows how the garment is worn, with the face coming through the hole and the fabric hanging loose around the back of the head, the neck, and the shoulders. The embroidery frames the face and continues straight down the chest.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Saudi Arabia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arab
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370093
label: USNM Number
content: E432043-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Head Covering
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 133 cm
label: Width - At Bottom Hem
content: 67 cm