Headdress
Artist
Unknown Indonesian
CultureMinangkabau peoples
Titles
- Headdress
DateLate 19th or early 20th century
PlaceIndonesia
MediumGold sheeting, wood
Dimensions8 3/4 × 8 1/2 dia. × 10 1/2 in. (22.2 × 21.6 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2327
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
208M Mullins Gallery
Exposé
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Department
Asian Art, Glassell CollectionObject Type
[1]Glassell Inventory, described on 10/15/93.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Walk in Splendor: The Minangkabau and Their Ceremonial Arts," at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, from May 2 to September 26, 1999 (LN:99.8).
Published References Summerfield, Anne and John Summerfield, "Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau" (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1999), 84, fig. 5.15. Frances Marzio, "The Glassell Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Masterworks of Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and African Gold" (Houston: MFAH; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 308-309.
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Unknown Indonesian
late 19th–early 20th century
Gold, coral and glass beads
2004.2343
