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Jacket1458/39

Purple damask silk jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a short standing collar, long wide sleeves and side opening with gold buttons and frog closures. Around the neck, side opening and bottom hem is a green border with a dark blue band and endless knot trim. The damask is woven containing the Taoist symbols of the Eight Immortals. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, dye and metal
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ribbon1458/37

Long, rectangular shaped, blue, silk ribbon with gold metallic threaded border and detailing. Depicted are four scenes of men, three appear to be doing various agricultural tasks while the fourth is lying down. Behind each is a floral motif showing orchids, a peony tree, bamboo shoots and a prunus tree.

Culture
Chinese
Material
fibre, silk fibre and metal
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ribbon1458/36

Long, rectangular, blue silk ribbon with an embroidered pattern of cranes with pomegranates, peonies, bees, grasshoppers, Mandarin ducks, orchids along with pieces of foliage. Bordering this pattern is a stripe of red and green.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, dye and metal
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ribbon1458/35

Long, rectangular, silk ribbon with an embroidered pattern of purple butterflies, blue birds and green lotuses bordered by a purple, blue, green and black geometric design on a cream background.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ribbon1458/34

Long, rectangular, silk ribbon with an embroidered pattern of fuchsia, pink, yellow, blue and green flowers on a green branch alternating with a yellow, green and pink butterfly on a black background.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera HeaddressEdz1649

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.

Culture
Chinese
Material
paper, metal, paste adhesive ?, dye, silk fibre ?, glass and paint
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hair TongsEdz1646

Metal hair tongs with d-shaped handles. The two tong parts are different; one has three metal rods in a plane that is perpendicular to that of the handles and the other has two metal rods, also in a perpendicular plane; the two rods fit through the two spaces formed by the three rods of the first part.

Culture
Chinese
Material
metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera HatEdz1632

Opera hat made of paper covered in black velvet. The hat is in two parts, the front is domed with a semicircular groove at the top, and the back is domed with a nearly flat front surface and rises above the front piece. The two pieces are hinged together with a leather strip across the seam, and there is a rope tie on both sides at the bottom rear of the front piece. A piece of black ribbon runs down the front of the back piece. There are two black sockets, one on either side, and there is also one socket at the bottom rear.

Culture
Chinese
Material
fibre, paint, metal and paper
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wig StandEdz1631

A dark grey metal wig stand that has a flat square base with a ring attached to one side edge of the rim. The base supports a funnel-like cone-shaped stand that is cylindrical around the bottom. The cone shape splays out on top and is covered by a bulbous curve of the same material. (Photo also shows the wig Edz1630.)

Culture
Chinese
Material
metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera HeaddressEdz1626

Tall rhinestone crown-like metal headdress with multicoloured, twined, thread ties at the back. Ten clusters of rhinestones mounted on springs are evenly spaced along the top of the headdress.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
metal, wool fibre, glass and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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