Jacket

2003-40-14

From: Taiwan

Curatorial Section: Asian

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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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