banner (ceremonial artefacts & rank insignia); temple banner (ritual & belief: ritual apparatus)

General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 2008.593
General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 2008.593

Ceremonial temple banner, used. Tai Lue, from Nan Province. The banner is rich in iconographic detail in horizontal bands. It is made of cotton with supplementary weft motifs in ebony seed black dye and red, and is hand-spun and hand-woven. It was acquired from the monastery in exchange for a donation passed to the abbot.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2008.593
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 265 mm x 2220 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton; weaving; plant dye
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
On display: Horniman Museum > World Gallery > Asia > Thailand - stories of the Buddha
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