Jacket

2003-38-48

From: China | Indochina

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-38-48
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Lahu
Provenience China | Indochina
Section Asian
Materials Cotton | Silk
Technique Woven | Appliqued | Sewn
Description

Girl's jacket of coarse purple handwoven cotton. Fitted waist, flaired hem. Collar formed by applied band of strips of piece-dyed ribbons (yellow and orange) and purple, green, and blue cotton material. Hem layered in bands of applied piece-dyed cotton (pink, red, gray, green, purple, brown, indigo) and edged in black cotton. A ribbon of green silk brocade floats above this multi-colored band.

Height 51 cm
Width 143 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.1161 - Other Number | 110 - Other Number

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