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Asian Art
Pair of hair ornaments
ca. 1930
Metal, gold wire, kingfisher feathers
4 1/4 × 1 3/8 in. (10.8 × 3.5 cm)
Bequest of Louise Wallace Hackney
1945.416
Geography:
China
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Republican period (1912–49)
Classification:
Jewelry
Provenance:
Louise Wallace Hackney (died 1945); beqeathed in 1945 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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