Jacket

Museum number:
9-23672
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023672
Alternate number:
ACW China #13 (previous number (collector's original number), Margot Schevill checklist number)
Accession number:
Acc.4804
Description:
Jacket, shiny cloth treated with egg and pig's blood.
Donor:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection place:
Kaili, Guizhou province, Southwest China
Verbatim coll. place:
Kaili, Guizhou Province, SW China
Production place:
Guizhou province, Southwest China
Culture or time period:
Miao
Collector:
Anne Connell Wilson
Collection date:
2003
Materials:
Metal (buttons) and Textile materials (treated with egg and blood)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jackets (short coats)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
March 6, 2017
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— length 67 centimeters, whole— width 125 centimeters, and whole— depth 5 centimeters
Comment:
Ann Wilson's Tag: Miao "shiny cloth" Jacket. Purchased by ACW near Kaili, Guizhou Province, SW China, in 2003. According to young woman we got this from, the woven cloth treated with "egg" and pigs blood.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Jacket, accession number 9-23672, described as Jacket, shiny cloth treated with egg and pig's blood.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Jacket, accession number 9-23672, described as Jacket, shiny cloth treated with egg and pig's blood.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Jacket, accession number 9-23672, described as Jacket, shiny cloth treated with egg and pig's blood.

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