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- OBJECT TYPE
- CHINESE DRAGON/CENTIPEDE
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0070.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- China
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- .1 WOOD FRAME & FABRIC COVERING; METAL WIRE; SYNTHETIC? BEARD; FOIL/.2-.3 FABRIC COVERED WOOD/.4 49 FABRIC DISKS WITH WOOD FRAME; WOOD RODS WITH FEATHERS AT EACH END; STRING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 62.0 cm
- Width
- 55.0 cm
- Height
- 50.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- China
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- China
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
SPECIMEN FROM CANADIAN COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONAL KITES. MR. YVES LAFOREST IS KITE COLLECTOR & FLIER FROM MONTREAL AREA. - Function
-
LIGHT FRAME COVERED WITH LIGHT MATERIAL, LIFTED BY WIND & FLOWN BY LONG CORD, USUALLY BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES. - Technical
-
MOST SPECTACULAR TYPE OF KITE IS PROBABLY CHINESE DRAGON OR CENTIPEDE, WHICH IS FOUND IN ALL SIZES & QUALITIES. DRAGON KITE IS COMPOSED OF HAND PAINTED HEAD & BODY. ELABORATE HEAD OFTEN HAS MOVING EYES OR TONGUE. BODY CONSISTS OF DISKS OFIDENTICAL OR DECREASING SIZE, LINKED BY CORD. ON EITHER SIDE OF EACH DISK IS BALANCING ROD DECORATED WITH FEATHERS OR PAPER (REF. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 LAST DISK INSCRIBED WITH WRITTEN CHARACTERS APPARENTLY CHINESE
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- .1 HEAD PRIMARILY PAINTED RED, GREEN, BLUE, WHITE, TEAL; NATURAL WOOD INTERIOR FRAME, WHITE PAINTED OUTSIDE COMPONENTS; GOLD FOIL; RED BEARD/.2-.3 PAINTED WHITE & BLACK, NATURAL WOOD/.4 RED EDGE PORTIONS OF DISKS WITH MULTICOLOURED CENTRAL PANELS; NATURAL WOOD; GREEN FEATHERS; WHITE STRING
- Decoration
- .2 SCALLOPED EDGES TO DISKS, INTERIOR PANELS DEPICT PERSON OR PERSONS USUALLY AT PLAY
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Unknown Manufacturer, Kite, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2003.0070, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0070.001/
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