Woman's sash Ground cloth is indigo blue. Grid and weave embroidered pattern is snowflake-like, and done in blue, white, green, yellow, and burgundy colors. A border on the end has a wave pattern with white, burgundy, and yellow waves.
Donor:
Ann Yarwood Goldman
Collection place:
Laos
Culture or time period:
Mien
Collection date:
1991
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Textile materials
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Snowflakes (motifs)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1962
Accession date:
September 30, 2011
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— height 351 centimeters and whole— width 49 centimeters