skirt

Long woven, ligth brown cotton textile with stamped decoration in black pigment. The textile has been sewn together at the shorter sides to form a ring (possibly a skirt?). The decoration consists of a panel with 2 vertical rows of floral motifs either side of this seam. This is bordered by a panel with buti alternating with floral spray motifs, framed by a set of 2 dotted stripes either side of a solid black stripe. The outside edges of this set of stripes are decorated with small diamond motifs. Half of this pattern is repeated as an overall border on the longer sides of the textile with the black line running along the selvedges. The remaining section is decorated with eight-pointed floral motifs.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
30.145
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 80 x 41 in.; 2032 x 1041.4 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton (textile); pigment
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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