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jacket

human history
  • Other Name

    barkcloth

  • Description

    Jacket

    Made from dried barkcloth and cotton thread. The textile of the jacket is made from bark of an Ipoh tree. It is made from one long piece of textile that has been folded over and sewn together at the sides and trimmed at the front centre for a neck hole and opening, it is sleeveless. The textile is supported by horizontal stitches and stitches along the edges. The opening has closures of twisted fibrous ties on each side in 3 locations. raw hem

  • Place
    Borneo/Indonesia
  • Other Id

    41512 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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