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Textile
- Place of origin:
Arakan State (made)
- Date:
ca. 1850 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
cotton, dyed, hand-loomed with supplementary weave
- Museum number:
IS.14-2003
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
Rectangle formed with two lengths (W. 17 cm) hand stitched along the weft edge. Black weft and warp. Blue and brown stripes formed with a supplementary weft weave. Brown tassels at each corner. Possibly worn as a head cloth or wrap skirt.
Place of Origin
Arakan State (made)
Date
ca. 1850 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
cotton, dyed, hand-loomed with supplementary weave
Dimensions
Length: 89 cm, Width: 35.5 cm
Descriptive line
A black loom woven skirt or headcloth with brown corner tassels attributed to a Chin group from Arracan. Distinguished by blue and brown stripes in supplementary weave. c. 1850
Production Note
Made by an anonymous member of a Chin group from Arakan, Myanmar
Materials
Cotton; Dye
Techniques
Weaving; Dyeing
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection