- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- One of four Tibetan women's aprons
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1920-1980
- Date collected
- 1986
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1996
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Printed
- Dimensions
- Width 515 mm, Length: max 698 mm, Length 781 mm of tie, Length: max 684 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1996.36.1
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