735 Akha Hill Tribe Girl's Hat with Job's Tears and Cowrie Shells
Ahka girls cap decorated with Job’s Tear, coins, hollow metal balls, and silver metal discs; three sections of embroidery are the typical applique diamonds of the Loimi group of the Akha living in Yunnan Province of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand; base of handwoven indigo cotton; 24” circumference ; job’s tears dangles to 11”; 2nd half 20th century; p 212 Peoples of the Golden Triangle
Ahka girls cap decorated with Job’s Tear, coins, hollow metal balls, and silver metal discs; three sections of embroidery are the typical applique diamonds of the Loimi group of the Akha living in Yunnan Province of China, Myanmar and Northern Thailand; base of handwoven indigo cotton; 24” circumference ; job’s tears dangles to 11”; 2nd half 20th century; p 212 Peoples of the Golden Triangle