Loincloth

Museum number:
10-3454
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4746
Description:
Woven cotton man's loin cloth. Dark brown with longitudinal narrow bands of tan and red plus a 9.0 cm wide band of tan, woven figures ("X's", stylized humans, pyramids) along one long side. Both ends finished with whip stitch using dark brown thread.
Donor:
Cheryl Barton-Petrie
Collection place:
Ifugao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Verbatim coll. place:
East Asia, Philippines, Southern Luzon, Ifugao
Culture or time period:
Ifugao
Collector:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection date:
1906-1924
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Loincloths
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
December 10, 2004
Context of use:
Man's clothing.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 181 centimeters and width 32 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Loincloth, accession number 10-3454, described as Woven cotton man's loin cloth. Dark brown with longitudinal narrow bands of tan and red plus a 9.0 cm wide band of tan, woven figures ("X's", stylized humans, pyramids) along one long side. Both ends finished with whip stitch using dark brown thread.

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