Loincloth

50-49-1232

From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 50-49-1232
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bontoc
Provenience Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Section Oceanian
Materials Cotton
Description

Long piece of hand-woven red cotton cloth with four longitudinal green and yellow stripes. At ends, eighteen horizontal stripes, alternating yellow and blue (giving the impression of purple). Fringed with tufts of white, green, red, yellow.

Length 370 cm
Width 31 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950

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