Hko Peu Ki (Headcloth)
before 1855 (made)
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Head cloth of which the main body is white with end borders of repeating stripes in supplementary weave of red, yellow and black. Ends finished in long fringes of twisted white cotton.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Unbleached cotton. Thread. Dye. Plain and continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft weave. |
| Brief description | A fringed hko peu ki of a woman of the Karen group of hill people. Plain and supplementary weave of white cotton with borders of repeating patterned stripes in red, black and yellow. c. before 1855 |
| Physical description | Head cloth of which the main body is white with end borders of repeating stripes in supplementary weave of red, yellow and black. Ends finished in long fringes of twisted white cotton. |
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| Production | 1880 Slip Book states that this garment was received in Arracan (Rakhine State) in 1855 and describes it as a waist cloth of men of cotton coloured worked ends very rudely. In the opinion of Sandra Dudley, Pitt Rivers Museum in 1999, this is a hko peu ki (head cloth) of a married woman of the Paku Karen. A hill people who live mainly in south and south east Burma. See also 4565 (IS); 5611 (IS); 5614 (IS). |
| Other number | 2597 - India Museum Slip Book |
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| Accession number | 5615(IS) |
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| Record created | February 2, 2004 |
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