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Object Number
36-45-60/1794
Display Title
Woman's headdresses
Descriptions
Object Description
Long cotton scarf - warp striped in bluw, red and yellow with twill pattern brocaded ends: Woman's headdress. A narrow woven red, dark blue-black, yellow and white rectangular cloth with loom-finished selvedges and fringes; symmetrical design. Structure: The object is primarily a warp-faced plain weave cloth with paired warps and groups of multiple wefts. At the two outer ends are float weave patterning of alternating bands of diamond twill and 2/2 vertical herringbone (groups of 7 wefts). There are two narrow regions of discontinued supplementary weft patterning in white and yellow; this patterning appears approxiamately 40 cm from the fringe edges. Warp: blue-black "z" twist-single yarn; red "s" twist-single yarn; yellow "z" twist-single yarn. Wefts: blue-blac[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description
Scarf, black with red, yellow stripes, patterned border, fringed
Classification
- Scarf
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Shan
- Kachin?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
/
Burma
Additional Geographic Terms
Bhamo District?
Materials
Cotton, Dye, Unidentified dye, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 348 x 26 cm (137 x 10 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
36-45-60/1794
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