Moomba Queen Crown c1985

Registration number

1091478

Title

Moomba Queen Crown

Production date

c1985

Medium

silk fabric, plastic gems and diamentes on internal frame

Dimensions (H x W x D)

19 x 21 x 18 cm

Credit line

City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Moomba, Crown, Queen, Headdress, Costume

Summary

Blue slubbed silk fabric crown with silver trim, plastic blue gems and diamentes. Housed in velvet-lined hat box. Photographs indicate that this crown was in use from 1985 to 1987, when the last queen was crowned, and was worn with a matching the blue robe. Prior to this a different crown was worn with tthe pleated red robe. Perhaps until the mid-1960s the queen was crowned with a tiara rather than the classic crown.