FMNH 222053.nosub[1]

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    Scanner: Grace Apfeld : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History - Ethnology | 20-23 | Provenience: Morocco | People or Culture: Arab | Object: Headband | Material: Black woven yarn, metal, velvet | Description: Branches at both ends into 3 tassles [sic] that are wrapped with rust, purple, yellow, green, and pink yarn. Piece of green velvet sewn on at center along the band has ric-rac along one end. Sewn to velvet are small metal bullet-shaped plates (center one is large and house-shaped) which have designs pressed into them. Hanging from these are diamond-shaped pressed metal pieces. | Dimensions: (in cm.) 114 x 5 1/2 | Collection: Purchased from Morocco Gifts, April 1973 [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 222053 | Field No. | Neg. No. 82 | Acc. 3254 [BACK] [PHOTOGRAPH] Catalogue #222053
Catalog Number: 222053.nosub[1]
Description: headband
Materials: yarn, velvet, metal
Cultural Attribution: Arab
Accession Number: [3254] Morocco Gifts (Purchase)
Accession Year:
Collector/Source: Morocco Gifts, Maude S. Wahlman
EMu IRN: 1128164
GUID: 5a38878e-d4af-48f0-bdba-aae0b359bc92

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