Boat-shaped hair ornament

Made:
1880-1920 in China
maker:
Unknown
Carved wooden hair ornament, boat-shaped, pierced

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Carved wooden hair ornament, boat-shaped, pierced
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved wooden hair ornament, boat-shaped, pierced, worn by Taoist priest, Chinese, 1880-1920

Details

Category:
Asian Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A658033
Materials:
wood
Measurements:
overall: 92 mm x 55 mm x 48 mm,
type:
hair ornament
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

Related Objects

Acupuncture needle, steel and brass, 1700-1900

Acupuncture needle
Nuptial triangle of copper, Indian, 1801-1900

Nuptial triangle of copper
Number of gilded metal patches with red or green centres, for forehead decoration, in glass topped bbox, Indian, 1880-1925

Number of gilded metal patches for forehead decoration
Cloth firebag containing steel bar, other bits missing, from Rajastan, India, 1850-1920

Cloth firebag containing steel bar

Leather firebag containing steel, tinder, pipe, and flint
Ivory back scratcher, in the form of an elaborately carved stem terminating in an animal head at 1 end and a hand at the other end, possibly Indian

Elaborately carved ivory back scratcher