A woman's tube skirt made mainly of cotton but with two narrow and one wider band of green silk. It has two large areas of red supplementary weft patterning, giving small undulating lines, worked in red or brown continuous supplementary weft. Two additional bands have been sewn on at the waist; the lower is red cotton and the upper white. [Textile]
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