skirt(front);
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.258
- Description
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Front skirt; from married and unmarried woman's market day and festival costume As.1998.1.256 to 262. Identical to back skirt As.1998.1.257. Base cloth of hand-woven cotton, dyed to dark blue with some sheen. Constructed in shaped waistband of doubled-over cloth with loops either side (of diamond weave cloth), and ties of twisted cotton. Main skirt of seven widths seamed at selvedges. Finely pleated with gathering in place below waistband.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 41 centimetres
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Width: 51 centimetres
- 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
- Purchased by Corrigan in February 1997.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.258
