Object Number | 2003-40-14 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Atayal |
Provenience | Taiwan |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Cotton | Metal |
Technique | Woven | Sewn |
Description | A short jacket woven of cotton in a black, white, and tan ikat design. The arms, waist, and front are decorated with panels of red cotton sewn on with pink thread in a running stitch. The waist is decorated with small gold metal balls and bells attached to a single red twisted cord. All edges are bound with red binding. The jacket fastens at the neck with a metal ball and loop. Catalogued as Atayal when it entered the museum but possibly from the Sediq people. |
Length | 34.3 cm |
Width | 123 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1946.1.2 - Other Number |
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