- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woollen headdress, fringed and embroidered in blue and yellow, with cowries, pompoms, beads, buttons, metal discs and small bells as decoration.
- Cultural groups
- Kalash
- Person
- Field collector Mr Michael Moynihan
- Field collector Mrs Michael Moynihan
- PRM source Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum
- PRM source James Coffin Harle
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1956
- Date collected
- 1956
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1984
- Materials and processes
- Material Wool Textile Animal, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Bead, Material Metal, Process Stitched, Process Embroidered, Process Decorated, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Width: max 300 mm, Length 600 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1984.23.3 Other numbers: Ashmolean number 1958.153
Search terms: Clothing Headgear, Ornament, Music, Headdress
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