Tunic

Museum number:
9-21168
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4703
Description:
(9-21168 = D1.) Child’s tunic. Consists of virtually identical front and back, and 2 identical sleeves. Waist to underarms on front and back have stripes of red, blue, blue warp ikat, yellow, blue with white warp floats, and blue with white supplementary wefts, all bordering central white band with red supplementary weft. Several red and blue lines of wrapped warps (?) across this central band. RE: blue bands with white supp. weft patterns: on one side of shirt only, one pair of these patterns includes red thread. Top parts of front and back are blue with narrow bands of red, yellow, blue, and white patterns. Outer edges of neckline sewn together with decorative red, or red and white, stitching. Sleeves, and front and back, sewn together at upper armholes with decorative red and white stitching. Lower part of armholes not sewn together, leaving underarms open and providing, presumably, greater comfort and ease of mobility. At shoulder sides of sleeves, there is ~7-8cm decorative red and white stitching on top of sleeves. On one sleeve only, this stitching ends in white thread sewing 5 red beads to sleeve. Below armholes, front and back sewn together with fine red and white thread and decorative stitching. Each sleeve casually sewn together with blue thread. Patterns on sleeves very similar to front and back patterns, but lack textured patterns (i.e., no supplementary weft, warp floats, or wrapped warps.) Neckline to waist: 33cm. Side to side: 34cm. Sleeves: 37-38cm.
Donor:
Eric Crystal
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam, Gia Lai Province. Bahnar.
Collector:
Eric Crystal
Collection date:
August-December 1999
Materials:
Weft [reassign]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tunics
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
February 3, 2000
Context of use:
Tunic, child’s. Per Eric Crystal’s notes: “Category D consists of textiles produced by the Bahnar tribal people residing in Gia Lai Province in the southern central highlands of Vietnam, west of Kontum city. The Bahnar are an Austroasiatic (Mon-Khmer) people. Due to government resettlement policies, deforestation, and colonization of the highlands by lowland Vietnamese groups such as the Bahnar are under extreme pressure. These textiles are not liable to be duplicated by future generations.”
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tunic, accession number 9-21168, described as (9-21168 = D1.) Child’s tunic. Consists of virtually identical front and back, and 2 identical sleeves. Waist to underarms on front and back have stripes of red, blue, blue warp ikat, yellow, blue with white warp floats, and blue with white supplementary wefts, all bordering central white band with red supplementary weft. Several red and blue lines of wrapped warps (?) across this central band. RE: blue bands with white supp. weft patterns: on one side of shirt only, one pair of these patterns includes red thread. Top parts of front and back are blue with narrow bands of red, yellow, blue, and white patterns. Outer edges of neckline sewn together with decorative red, or red and white, stitching. Sleeves, and front and back, sewn together at upper armholes with decorative red and white stitching. Lower part of armholes not sewn together, leaving underarms open and providing, presumably, greater comfort and ease of mobility. At shoulder sides of sleeves, there is ~7-8cm decorative red and white stitching on top of sleeves. On one sleeve only, this stitching ends in white thread sewing 5 red beads to sleeve. Below armholes, front and back sewn together with fine red and white thread and decorative stitching. Each sleeve casually sewn together with blue thread. Patterns on sleeves very similar to front and back patterns, but lack textured patterns (i.e., no supplementary weft, warp floats, or wrapped warps.) Neckline to waist: 33cm. Side to side: 34cm. Sleeves: 37-38cm.

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