Embroidery Square
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Alvord V. Anderson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Field of blue cotton, unlined, embroidered with centered , large 5-clawed dragon figures in white, red, and green silk, scattered embroidery of cloud figures, bats, and yin-yang in gold and red, at base are the usual embroideries representing waves and mountains symbolizing the sea and Earth, border embroidery of bat figures and character writing in gold thread."
label: Notes
content: "It should be noted that there were also symbols of longevity found on this object, however these may have been interpreted as the aforementioned “yin-yang” during the original examination." Per Stephanie Beaumont, See multimedia pdf attached to accession record 202518.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Beijing (Peking), China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 202518
label: USNM Number
content: E393355-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Embroidery