Skirt

Museum number:
10-3456
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Accession number:
Acc.4746
Description:
Woman's woven cotton wrap skirt, navy blue ground with red and mixed white and navy longitudinal stripes woven in hourglass pattern alternating with stylized human figures. Composed of four narrow loom strips sewn together longitudinally. Each end is finished with a 4 cm wide horizontal woven band of navy/red/white stripes and alternating red and white short tassels.
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:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
December 10, 2004
Context of use:
Woman's clothing.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 186 centimeters, fringes— length 1.5 centimeters, and width 140 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 10-3456, described as Woman's woven cotton wrap skirt, navy blue ground with red and mixed white and navy longitudinal stripes woven in hourglass pattern alternating with stylized human figures. Composed of four narrow loom strips sewn together longitudinally. Each end is finished with a 4 cm wide horizontal woven band of navy/red/white stripes and alternating red and white short tassels.

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