Date: First half of 20th century
Area: Zhangye, Gansu province
Hat donated by Mr. Bai Zifu and Ms. Guo Guiying
Necklace donated by Mr. Suo Yanzhi

• Object Type：
  • OTHERS
• Location：
  • Chinese Minority Nationalities' Art Gallery
• Tag：
  • dress yugur 20th century gansu

Living at the north foot of Qilian Mountain, the Yugu people mainly wear long robes, clad with turtle-neck sleeveless jackets in order to adapt to the local natural conditions. The women like wearing a trumpet-shaped hat with a red tassel. It is said that wearing this kind of hat is to commemorate a national heroine. The red tassel on the top stands for the blood she shed when she was killed. 
Married Yugu women wear three tapes as head ornaments, with three braids of hair on the left, right, and back; and then use three decorative tapes inlaid with silver, coral, agate, beads, shells and other accessories to tie respectively to the three braids in the front and back. Each tape of head ornament is divided in three sections linked with metal rings. The length of the head ornaments is based on the height of the body, with the top even with the earrings and the bottom reaching the hem of the robe. The clothes make a very distinctive jingling sound when walking.