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cape, rain

human history
  • Other Name

    Mino (Japanese)

  • Description

    Mino, Rain cape

    Made from hemp tree bark. The cape is made from the dense layering of the hemp fibre and bark. Calf length cape, sleeveless, front opening. The cape is secured around the neck with a twisted fibre rope, 2 twisted ropes sit over the shoulders and run down to the front opening. The interior has strips of solid hemp bark that is layered over each other and sewn in to place. The shoulder section is layered to create a wing shape that sits over the shoulders. The hem of the cape has long fibres of the hemp bark that creates a fringing at the hem

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1987.670
  • Accession Date
    17 Sep 1987
  • Other Id

    52529 (ethnology)

    T473 (textile)

  • Department
accession card

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