Camel neckstrap.

Collection type: Object
Description: Camel neckstrap.
Long description: Camel neckstrap. Twined, wrapped, braided and stitched. Pink, green, blue, magenta and yellow cotton. Pink, green and metallic silver acrylic. Commercial string. There is a loop at one ends and a ball of yarn at the other. The balled end of the neckstrap is pushed through a loop in 2003.9.86 .2. The variously coloured cotton is wrapped around the commercial string forming straps which are bound together with more cotton. The string is braided and appears to have lost its cotton wrapping in the middle of the neckstrap. [RJ 24/2/2003]
Geographical reference: Oman
Asia > Western Asia > Oman; Ash Sharqiyah
Cultural groups: Wahiba
Person: Field collector Hamoud Abdullah; PRM source Gigi Crocker Jones
Date / Period: Date made: Before 03/1987
Date collected: March 1987
Acquisition information: Donated: 2003
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Synthetic Yarn, Material Pigment, Material String, Material Yarn Metallic, Process Braided, Process Stitched, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Width 20 mm, Length 680 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2003.9.86.1 Other numbers: Field collector's catalogue number: Textile 131a

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