skirt;
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.342
- Description
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Skirt; part of girl's festival and market costume As.1998.1.339 to 342. Pleated, shiny green. Base cloth bought, but locally dyed and stiffened. Waistband of hand-woven cotton. Decorated with band at bottom of applied strips of embroidery and woven ribbon. Narrow black and white warp pattern on ties.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 76 centimetres
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Width: 87 centimetres (at waist)
- 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 1988 at Kaili sunday market from peasant from the village of Tiantang.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.342
