Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for E 1900.430 A-C reads: 'Symbolic of the completed harvest.'
Event Date 4/10/1995
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for E 1900.30 A-C: 'Hat-like objects, fringed with rice.'

Event Date 4/10/1995
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Grains of rice detached but present.
Event Date 8/7/2004
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
Two packages of stalks and grains of rice have been found which have been assigned this idno [E 1900.30 A-C], and so are presumably affiliated with these hats. They have been bagged and placed with the hats.
Event Date 4/8/2004
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card No.1 for E 1900.30 A-C reads: 'E 1900.30 a/b/c. S. ASIA. SRI LANKA (Ceylon). Three hat-like objects [...] made of coloured plait work, fringed with particles of rice. Mrs Obeyeskere'.
Event Date 24/9/2019
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card No.2 for E 1900.30 [A-C] reads: 'E 1900.30 a-c. ASIA. INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, SRI LANKA. Three HAT-LIKE objects (harvest maidens) symbolical of the completed harvest, made of coloured plaitwork, fringed with particles of rice. Mrs Obeyeskere. R. 1901. 503-505'.
Event Date 24/9/2019
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Hat or headdress made of woven plant fibre and fringed with rice. The hat has a stepped design, and is a pattern is formed using darker (possibly once red) plant fibre and small tufts of fibre.
Event Date 11/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley

Conservation (Soft Mount )
CON.2015.1632 | Soft Mount
Event Date 11/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley