- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Man's skirt-cloth, blue, black and gold checked, two-tone effect material.
- Geographical reference
- Thapye Auk village, near Amarapura, Mandalay Division, Central Burma
- Cultural groups
- Burman
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1996
- Date collected
- November 1996
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 04/11/1996
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Machine-made, Process Ikat Resist Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 1180 mm, Length: max 1900 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1997.28.56
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