FMNH 221517.nosub[1]

  • 221517: horse ornamental ear flaps Made
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    Description: Ornamental ear flaps for a horse made of leather, cloth, silver wire, sequins, silk yarn, cotton yarn
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    Scanner: Grace Apfeld : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 21-17 | Provenience: Nigeria: Bornu Province | People or Culture: Kanuri | Object: horse's ornamental ear-flaps | Material: red leather; diverse kinds of cloth; silver wire; sequins; silk yarn; cotton yarn. | Description: two long rectangular pieces of stiff fabric faced at the back with a flannel-like cloth and at the front with florid designs embroidered in silver wire; these elements are connected by braided black and red cotton yarn; these braids fall over the face of the flaps and end in two sets of three tassels; tassels are decorated with sequins tied on to the ends of their strands. Metal rings. | Dimensions: (in cm.) | Collection: Purchased from Mr. David H. Spain 30 April 1968. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 221517 | Field No. | Neg. No. 109171 A9 | Acc. 3017 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH] | 221517
Catalog Number: 221517.nosub[1]
Description: ear flaps
Materials: leather, cloth, metal; silver wire, sequins, silk yarn, cotton yarn
Cultural Attribution: Kanuri
Accession Number: [3017] D. H. Spain (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1968
Collector/Source: David H. Spain, David H. Spain
EMu IRN: 1127668
GUID: 53660f2b-dc93-4e5f-93bf-61cd63497c0c

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