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Cap with leaves, flowers, and stars
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Description
In the winter of 1868/69 the tea planter and explorer Robert Shaw travelled from northern India to Eastern Turkestan (now Xinjian, China). His journey was partly to help British India’s secret service in the exploration of Central Asia which was politically and geographically contested by the British Empire and Russia.
Shaw was the first Englishman to visit Yarkand and Kashgar, and he related his adventures in his book Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashgar. He described the splendid clothes he encountered and mentioned on several occasions receiving gifts of coats and other garments.
The finest of these were presented by Yakub Beg, then ruler of Kashgar. Shaw’s detailed description makes the collection of Central Asian ikat garments one of the best recorded.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1801 - 1869
- Associated people
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Robert Shaw (1839 - 1879) (owner)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed dark-pink, quilted, and embroidered with blue, white, and red silk and wool; cotton lining, machine-printed; blue woven braid
- Dimensions
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11 cm (height)
16 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Transferred from the Indian Institute.
- Accession no.
- EAX.7400
Location
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- currently in research collection
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