tube skirt; textile

Woman's tube skirt made up of three panels of fabric, the top part one band of red cotton, the central part made of two pieces of fabric decorated with supplementary weft in metal threads. The lower portion is made from a length of fabric with a black warp on the top and a red warp at the bottom. The black warp has been decorated with supplementary weft of metal threads and some violet pink orange and green discontinuous supplementary weft. The lower portion has some metal threads running into it but for is the most part plain. [textile]

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1977.102
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 42.9921 x 27.5591 in.; 1092 x 700 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cotton, metal thread
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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