Object Number | 59-11-1B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Atayal |
Provenience | Taiwan |
Locus | Atayal |
Date Made | -1959 |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Wool | Shell | Copper |
Description | Worn by women as protection against snakes. Each is a rectangle of hemp cloth in natural color with overlay in vertical bands in patterns of diamonds and x's, in rose, green and blue wool. Ornamented with white china buttons on two adjoining edges. Long narrow tape of very dark blue with fine purple and magenta stripe outside central band of small tan motifs, attached at one corner; buttons near free end which terminates in copper coin above tassel. |
Length | 108 cm |
Width | 47 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Chin Chuan Yu, 1959 |
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