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Description: | Collected by the donor's aunt, Hilda Wilson, who was a missionary at the China Inland Mission in Szechwan from the 1930s until 1947.
Infant's hat made of black silk, lined with red cotton. The hat has an open crown and is decorated with embroidery, sequins and metal wrapped in thread in the form of a tiger. The head of the tiger is made three-dimensional by folding down the stiffened silk ears, which have little tufts of fur.
caption: General view of object no. 2004.649. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Hats silk cotton Children's costume headdresses (head ornament) metal thread textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-124903 | Go to resource |
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