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Headscarf from Egypt, made of very thinly woven textile, allowing the fabric to be slightly translucent. The fabric is peach in colour and triangular shaped. At the main point of the triangle there is a series of decorative beads which hang in a straight line. The beads are gold, green and pink in colour, there is also a flat pearl colour bead at the end of the row. This pattern is repeated at each point of the headscarf triangle, with one string of beads.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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