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Shawl box, liner and shawl Object.
- Format:
- Image
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Houqua (Ship).
- Children.
- Clothing and dress.
- Exports.
- Fashion.
- Flowers.
- Gifts.
- Silk.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1850]
- Summary:
- Lacquered wood case, painted cardboard liner with applied coloured papers, and embroidered ivory silk-crepe shawl. Brought back as a gift on board the ship Houqua.
- Notes:
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from 'From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade' by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.
- Title from publisher's website.
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