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2014.43.32

White postcard bound with white woven cotton braid demonstrating 'cross coiling'' hair embroidery technique. [FB 07/11/2014]

2014.43.32

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Collection type
Object
Description
White postcard bound with white woven cotton braid demonstrating 'cross coiling'' hair embroidery technique. [FB 07/11/2014]
Long description
White postcard bound with white woven cotton braid demonstrating 'cross coiling' hair embroidery technique. The cotton braid has been bound in a kris cross pattern around a piece of folded pink card and attached to the index card with string. The top left hand corner of the card has been typed with 'Cross-coiling'. An index card accompanies the specimen explaining Aleut triple-core hair embroidery now in RDF. [FB 07/11/2014]
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Jessica Turner
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1984
Date collected
By 1984
Acquisition information
Donated: 21/01/2014
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Paper Plant, Material String, Process Woven, Process Bound, Process Perforated, Process Inscribed
Dimensions
Width: max 84 mm, Length: max 139 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2014.43.32
Research and responses

Turner wrote a paper on hair embroidery, see Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America by Geoffrey Turner (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 7).' [FB 31/10/2014]

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