Embroidered Textile, Shelf Hanging
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 8 Jul 2002
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. J. D. Rogers
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Shelf hanging made of commercially manufactured yellow polyester (or cotton/polyester?) cloth stitched with synthetic (nylon?) yellow fringe. Hand embroidered with twelve animals associated with the Chinese calindrical cycle, in bright colors with black outline. Reverse side contains graphite pencil lines as an outline. Yellow cloth has some dirt scuffmarks. According to the Video Footage, Tape 4, 7/10/02 and field notes the animals represent those summoned to Buddha to bid him farewell before he departed from earth. First is the Rat (embroidered in pink), followed by the Ox (yellow), the Tiger (red), the Rabbit (yellow), the Dragon (green), the Snake (pink), the Horse (orange), the Sheep (white), the Monkey (green), the Rooster (multi-colored), the Dog (orange), and the Boar (yellow). Used as a common, day-to-day decorative item, typically hung from the edge of a shelf in the ger. New when collected; made for sale in the market.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ulaanbaatar, Central Province, Mongolia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mongolian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2029642
label: USNM Number
content: E432879-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hanging
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 195.5 cm
label: Width
content: 27 cm