Coat of commercial striped brown cloth with appliqué of coarse indigo-dyed cotton blue cotton lining, blue curvilinear embroidery; women’s coats said to be indistinguishable from men’s.
Donor:
Hiroaki Okada
Collection place:
Hokkaidō Prefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
Culture or time period:
Ainu
Collector:
Hiroaki Okada
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coats (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
women’s coats said to be indistinguishable from men’s
S1969-1970 #116: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (April 23, 1970–April 23, 1970), S1974-1975 #16: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (September 6, 1974–October 22, 1974), and S1981-1982 #39: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (January 19, 1982–March 30, 1982)