gaiter;
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.249.a-b
- Description
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Pair of gaiters; from married woman's market day costume As.1998.1.246 to 250 a & b. Base cloth on lower part of hand-spun, hand-woven cotton dyed dark indigo with sheen; upper cloth of unbleached calico. Constructed as a tube made of upper and lower parts sewn together. Decorated in bands: i) unbleached calico; ii) supplementary weft pattern in acrylic wool with an edge of shallow 'V' shapes cut out; iii) shiny blue bought cloth; iv) band woven as ii); v) binding of wax resist.
- Production date
- 1990-1997
- Dimensions
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Length: 40 centimetres ((a))
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Length: 40.50 centimetres ((b))
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Width: 16.50 centimetres ((a))
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Width: 17 centimetres ((b))
- 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
- Bought in February 1997 by Corrigan from married woman visiting market at Pingyong.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.249.a-b
