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Object Number 991-12-60/14925
Display Title Painted Bone Hair Ornament
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Chinese name - fashi
Object Description Bone hair ornament with butterfly on a small spring at one end. Details painted in black and gold. <transliteration> (Chinese name). 10.2 cm. (l) x 1.5 cm. (w).
Inventory Description Pin, hair pin, carved bone, butterfly on spring with dangler, single pick
Classification
  • Pin
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th century - early 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm (4 1/8 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 991-12-60/14925
Provenance
Collector Sarah Pike Conger (1898 - 1905)
Donor Sarah Conger Buchan Jewell

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