Headband
1915 (made)
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Headband in the form of a tiger's face crotcheted in various colours and enlivened with glass beads and pink pompoms. A length of elastic is sewn across the back.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Crocheting, glass beads, pink pom poms and elastic |
| Brief description | Headband, from a set of clothes for a child, crocheted headband in the shape of a tiger's head, Jinan, Shandong province, China, 1915 |
| Physical description | Headband in the form of a tiger's face crotcheted in various colours and enlivened with glass beads and pink pompoms. A length of elastic is sewn across the back. |
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| Object history | Purchased. Registered File number 1986/915. Part of a set of clothes for a child consisting of a jacket, a bib, two pairs of trousers, a bonnet, a headband and a pair of shoes. They were made for the vendor by wealthy elderly Chinese ladies living next door to her parents in Jinan, and presented to them in December 1915. The clothes never worn but treasured by vendor's mother. See FE.12-1986 for a more detailed history. |
| Historical context | For the use of tigers on children's hats see Berliner, Nancy, Chinese Folk Art Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1986, pp 164-5. NAL Bibliographic Ref. No.:18.O.231. |
| Production | Jinan, Shandong province |
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| Accession number | FE.12E-1986 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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