Cantonese Opera Headdress Item Number: Edz1649 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

A gold-painted paper mache helmet with a visor. Helmet has relief decoration of spirals. Decorated with pink, purple-pink, orange, and grey with blue spotted pom poms. The visor also has pom poms, many of which are similar to the helmet. The visor is decorated with paper cut-outs of butterflies and dragon heads. There is one back panel consisting of white fabric with green fabric attached at the bottom, and with red fabric along each side. There are fourteen circular mirror pieces decorating the back panel.