1996.3.3

Collection type

Object

Description

Black brocaded 'maha-kala' apron. Part of Black Hat Dancer's costume. [FB 01/12/2014]

Long description

Black brocaded 'maha-kala' apron. Part of Black Hat Dancer's costume. The ?silk apron is made with a large black central rectangle on which has been brocaded a Mahakala mask with the Third Eye. The rectangle has a bright orange border within which have been brocaded 'dorje' symbols and skulls. At the bottom of the apron there is a multicoloured fringe. The apron is worn around the waist and attached by the two striped multicoloured bands of cotton textile at either edge of the top. The apron is lined with bright pink cotton textile. There is a short line of writing in Tibetan script at the top of the lining of the apron. [FB 01/12/2014]

Geographical reference

Tibet

Asia > Eastern Asia > Tibet

Person

Field collector Schuyler Jones

PRM source Schuyler Jones

Date / Period

Date made: 1900-1995

Date collected

1995

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1995

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Animal Hair Textile, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Process Embroidered, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Stitched, Process Dyed

Dimensions

Length: max 860 mm, Width: max 653 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1996.3.3

Research and responses

For further information see Hugh Richardson "Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year", Serindia, London 1993 (Balfour Library). See also F.Spencer Chapman Collection and David Macdonald Collection in PRM Photo Archive. [MdeA] [NM]

Search terms: Clothing, Religion, Textile, Dance, Ritual and Ceremonial, Apron