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Necklace2663/58

Necklace of 104 irregularly shaped and unevenly coloured beads of green stone, strung on green thread with knots between beads.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
stone and cotton fibre
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2663/57

Necklace of 74 oval carnelian beads in graduated sizes, strung on orange thread with knots between beads.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
carnelian mineral and cotton fibre
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mobile Figure1610/13 a-e

The first piece (part a) is the head of a female painted with a green face and a large oval headdress surrounding her entire face. The headdress has a cylindrical stepped middle part, and the whole thing is red decorated with gold dots and a yellow rim. Her face is outlined with white and she has long black fibre hair. She has two knobs protruding from her face. The second piece (part b) is the upper body which has the arms bent at the elbows with the right perpendicularly forward holding a golden object and the left hand being held over the chest. The neck is long and tapers up to a point with a metal loop. The upper body garment is red decorated with green, blue, and gold. The third piece (part c) is the three red and beige multiple stringed strands with red and white tassels which are draped around the neck. The fourth piece (part d) is a skirt which tapers to a white point at the top with a metal loop. The waist has a dark blue belt decorated with circular gold flowers and a horizontal gold line around the top and the bottom of the belt. Oval beads are painted in three rows around the hips with a pink rope underneath. The skirt is white with visible light blue folds in the fabric and have two sets of horizontal rows that have pink in the middle and green around them which transition to yellow at the back. There is a long thin red front panel decorated with gold dots and sideways crescents outlined with two rows of gold dots followed by a pink, green, yellow, and white garland. Two long thin orange side panels are decorated with horizontal rows of green pink, blue, yellow and black. The fifth piece (part e) is the legs which are slightly fused together with dark blue anklets decorated with two horizontal of gold dots around the middle. The beige-pink feet are standing on a rounded circular base painted grey and black. There is a metal loop at the top of the legs.

Culture
Indian
Material
paper, cotton fibre, cement ?, dye, clay ?, paint, metal and paste adhesive
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2663/59

Necklace with 84 irregularly shaped and unevenly coloured beads of green stone, strung on green thread.

Culture
Tibetan
Material
stone and cotton fibre
Made in
Tibet
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan1060/67

Semicircular fan of folded leaf with triangular decoration in grass around edge. Handle is made of the branch of the leaf with the leaf bent around the end and then tied off at one edge to length of handle with two loops of grass.

Culture
South India
Material
leaf, wood ? and grass
Made in
Goa, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Carving1670/3

An elaborate wood carving with a central figure standing with the right leg crossed over the other and two smaller robed figures standing straight at the sides of the doorway. The sides of the doorway are carved with a spiral floral design and an angel at the top of either sides with negative space all around. An animal head is at the top centre of the doorway. The top and the base are carved with geometric designs in relief.

Culture
Indian
Material
wood
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubEg426

A long conical stuffed yellow fabric piece which tapers down at one end where there are tassel-like balls of green and orange. Orange thread stitched in and out throughout. Symbol of Vishnu in white cloth, cut in an upside down U-shape, with a dark orange tapered piece of cloth inside.

Culture
South India
Material
cotton fibre and fibre
Made in
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wedding Scarf1330/9

Man’s long, narrow, rectangular scarf or sash, heavily embroidered with multicoloured geometric and floral motifs and many mirrors. Arranged along the length of the scarf are sixteen square and rectangular blocks of embroidered designs, consisting of a variety of motifs, many different kinds of stitches and two styles of embroidery (kharek and pakka). The embroidery is so dense that it completely covers the background textile. The blocks of embroidery are separated by black “braid” formed from bundles of black cotton thread which is laid and couched with red thread. There is a border of silver and gold mirrors along all four edges, and the ends are embellished with green and pink beadwork and small red-orange silk tassels. A binding of dark green cotton muslin is machine-stitched along the outside edges. The underlining is pieced from plain and printed cotton and rayon(?) textile in various shades of red.

Culture
Ahir ?, Rabari ? or Meghwal ?
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, wool fibre ?, rayon fibre ?, glass, silver alloy metal ? and dye
Made in
Gujarat, India and Rajasthan, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dowry Bag1330/8

Small, flat, square, embroidered envelope-style bag, detailed with mirrors and pompoms, made by folding and stitching together three corners of a flat, square panel to form a pocket, with the fourth corner left open to serve as a flap or cover. The square-shaped embroidered motifs, formed from bars of satin stitch outlined in black, are grouped together into larger squares that are arranged in a grid, separated with narrow bands of alternating mirror-work and floral designs that form an X on the back of the bag. The square is bordered with mirror-work, alternating with floral designs. The embroidery is so dense that it completely covers the background textile. There are glass beads sewn onto the seams, which are worked in fine interlacing stitch. Small pompoms and glass beads are stitched to the lower corners. At the intersection of the three corners is a small white button, embellished with small coloured glass beads. The embroidery is underlined with red cotton textile that is printed with multicoloured designs.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, glass, silver alloy metal ? and dye
Made in
Gujarat, India ? or Rajasthan, India ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hood1330/1

Close-fitting, shoulder-length child’s hood made of red cotton textile which is heavily embroidered with medallions, geometric designs, mirrorwork and linear border motifs, worked in green, yellow, off-white, blue and black cotton and silk thread. A rectangular panel of embroidered cotton textile hangs loosely to the shoulders at the sides and back. Mirrors, alternating with blocks of interlacing stitch, form a border around the edges of this panel; a square multicoloured medallion and two multicoloured circular medallions are embroidered at the centre back. The crown is embroidered with floral motifs worked in silk floss, and there is a short fringe of green, white and blue glass beads at the forehead. Two short strands of twisted fibre are attached at the front edge, over the temples. The hood is lined with dark yellow and red cotton textile, and the edges of the hood are bound with dark yellow and green cotton bias tape.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, glass, silver alloy metal ? and dye
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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