Needle case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Aug 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Wesley Halpert
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Wesley Halpert
notes: label: Notes
content: Leather bell-shaped case covered with silver threaded cloth. Most of the silver has worn off, revealing yellow silk threads underneath. Edged with blue silk piping. A red and blue silk strap pulls the needle container from the case. Attached to the strap is an endless knot of wrapped gold and silver thread, and a blue silk tassel. Part of a set of lama's accessories (catalog numbers 424246 - 424253) worn together attached to the sash.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tibet, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364389
label: USNM Number
content: E424249-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Needle Case
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 43 cm
label: Width
content: 8 cm