Tunic
ca. 1890-1910 (made)
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Tunic of coarse blue cotton cloth embroidered with red, green, white and yellow triangles in a design of rectangles alternating with applied seeds. Round the hemline is a band of rust coloured cloth with applied seeds, and with a row of seeds on each side. Dyed, handwoven and stitched.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered cotton, seeds, and dyed |
| Brief description | Tunic of embroidered cotton and seeds, probably made in Shan, ca. 1890-1910 |
| Physical description | Tunic of coarse blue cotton cloth embroidered with red, green, white and yellow triangles in a design of rectangles alternating with applied seeds. Round the hemline is a band of rust coloured cloth with applied seeds, and with a row of seeds on each side. Dyed, handwoven and stitched. |
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| Object history | Thought to be worn by a man of one of the Karen groups of hill people of Burma. The RP's reveal little about the donor, Miss Potts. In a letter (4/1/65) to the Museum offering the swords, opium pipe and "native tops" ( IS 84 & 85-1965) Miss Potts writes that her father bought them in Burma before the 1914 War. |
| Production | Sandra Dudley of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford suggested in 1999 a Karen male attribution to this tunic based on a similar example in the Pitt Rivers Museum. |
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| Accession number | IS.84-1965 |
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| Record created | March 15, 2004 |
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