Mask
mid 20th century
| Artist/Maker |
Elaborate feather and flower-trimmed eye mask. Made of white crin with silver cellophane lines, trimmed with blue, silver and off-white crin. Embroidered with crin flowers, ears of wheat, foliage of iridescent plastic and high tufts of blue ostrich feather.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Elaborate feather and flower-trimmed eye mask, made by Hugh Skillen |
| Physical description | Elaborate feather and flower-trimmed eye mask. Made of white crin with silver cellophane lines, trimmed with blue, silver and off-white crin. Embroidered with crin flowers, ears of wheat, foliage of iridescent plastic and high tufts of blue ostrich feather. |
| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Given by the estate of Hugh Skillen |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.864-2019 |
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| Record created | December 3, 2019 |
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