apron(front);
festival-costume
- Museum number
- As1998,01.88
- Description
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Front apron; part of girl's festival costume As.1998.1.84 to 90. Hand-woven cotton base cloth dyed dark indigo, with selvedge on one side. Decorated on borders with rolled edges in dull reddish brown and blue. Within borders is 'tin' embroidery. The main design is built up of small squares, which form a hooked pattern on the diagonal. There are also twenty horizontal lines of 'tin' embroidery.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 48 centimetres
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Width: 19.50 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
- Corrigan collected from this village in October 1993 and April 1995. It is unclear from which visit this item stems.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1998,01.88
