jacket

Jacket. Lower portion of sleeves and main body made from lengths of warp faced striped handwoven fabric in red, white, black, grey-green and fawn. Upper part of jacket (yoke) of black cotton cloth, neck opening bound in white fabric, with applique stripes next to armholes front and back. Upper part of sleeves made from commercially printed fabric of white dots on blue, with red and white geometrical motifs scattered over. Below yoke at front is strip of commercially printed floral cotton fabric. At back of neck a rectangle of red applique.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2007.324.2
PLACE
COLLECTION
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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