Pillar Tapestry
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Aug 1978
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tsering R. Lhungay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG NARROW TAPESTRY OF FADED RED SILK, WITH FINELY-WORKED EMBROIDERY OF FIVE ANIMALS: (FROM TOP DOWN) A BIRD WITH HOOKED BEAK, FIVE-CLAWED DRAGON, PHOENIX, DOG, AND A LONG-TAILED HOOVED ANIMAL WITH DRAGON HEAD. BACKGROUND SCATTERED WITH FLOWERS AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS. CHINESE MANUFACTURE, CH'ING (18TH CENTURY). USED TO DECORATE HALL PILLARS IN COURTS AND MONASTERIES. BROUGHT TO NEPAL BY DONOR PRIOR TO 1959 TAKEOVER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tibet, 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: 332885
label: USNM Number
content: E420073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tapestry