Mourning Cape
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Oct 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Province M. Henry
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes, written on tag attached to object: Paiwan tribe, Pingtung Hsien, Raisha to Rikirikisha (village) area, Taiwan (SW Formosa). Mourning cape. Function as [E410104], being worn over the back or mainly over one shoulder, as convenient. Fully embroidered in similar design as [E410104]. In this connection, a similar cape (said to be 18th century) is now in the possession of the Smithsonian from this collection. The main difference is that the latter cape has a predominantly red design of repeated human heads. The present example may date from the 19th century, and is an early design motif.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Raisha Village, Pingdong X., Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiwan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281393
label: USNM Number
content: E410105-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape