skirt;
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.52
- Description
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Skirt; part of girl's festival costume As.1998.1.46 to 53. Pleated with horizontal light stripes. Base cloth is dyed indigo with over-dying of chemical purple. Decorated with fine horizontal stripes made while weaving using white yarn in the warp. Horizontal light blue stripes made using white warp threads, then over-dyed. Silk tie bands are embroidered.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 55 centimetres
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Width: 135 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
- Belonged to Yang Ting Xiou, the wife of the headman of the village of Xiaoyang. Purchased by Corrigan 28.04.1997.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.52
