skirt;
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.60
- Description
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Skirt; part of girl's festival costume As.1998.1.58 to 63. Pleated, constructed in three sections with waistband of unbleached cotton; a middle tier of indigo dyed cotton; and a bottom strip of indigo cotton with frill of unbleached calico on underside for extra weight. Decorated at bottom of middle section with back-stitched repeated images of animals or humans in white, set in a horizontal line. Embroidered diamond shapes.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 60 centimetres
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Width: 105 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
- Bought in October 1995 by a Chinese colleague of Gina Corrigan.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.60
