skirt(back);
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.168
- Description
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Back skirt; part of woman's market and minor festival costume As.1998.1.164 to 169 a & b. Base cloth of hand-spun, hand-woven cotton, indigo dyed to almost black, with sheen. No decoration. Constructed of three widths of cloth seamed and roughly pleated into a narrow waistband with extends to form ties on either side.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 48 centimetres
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Width: 93 centimetres (At hem)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Selected items from Miao textiles were on display in exhibition 'Miao Costumes from South West China' as part of the BP Exhibition Showcase, which closed 11 Oct 1998.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- Items collected in April 1995 by Lu Chang, a Chinese colleague of Gina Corrigan.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.168
