Silk Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: King Phra Pin Klao
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*THE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS CAT. NO. WITH THIS PARTICULAR TEXTILE IS NOT DEFINITE, BECAUSE NO TAG WAS ON THE SPECIMEN AND THE SHORTNESS OF THE DESCRIPTION COULD ONLY GIVE A SUGGESTION THAT IT MIGHT BE THE ONE REFERRED TO.-MAY 1969-R. ELDER. THIS IS A LONG WIDE PIECE OF FAIRLY STIFF MATERIAL IN A DULL MAROON COLOR, THAT HAS ELABORATE WOVEN IN DESIGNS IN GOLD: THE CENTER HAS CONTINUOUS SMALL HEXAGONAL DESIGNS, THE WIDE BORDERS APPEAR TO BE FLOWERS, AND AT EACH END ARE THREE WIDE BANDS - TWO OF WHICH SYMBOLIC FIGURES WITH AT LEAST CROWNED HEADS; THE OTHER TWO APPEAR TO HAVE FACES WITHIN FLORAL DESIGNS. LENT TO THE TEXTILE MUSEUM, FEB. 5, 1992."
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. Identified there as silk cloth.
label: Notes
content: A maroon silk and metalic thread shawl.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thailand, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 286521
label: USNM Number
content: E89-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth