Wedding Skirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Sep 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Elizabeth Roessing
notes: label: Notes
content: Two piece wedding skirt of red silk brocade, royal blue and ivory silk satin. Couched thread embroidery in gold and silver threads depicts birds, dragon, and floral motifs. 14.2 cm waist band of light blue cotton plain weave fabric. Reverse side is light blue taffeta. Central panel pleated red brocade, with 18.6 cm apron attached over the pleats. Upper edge of apron is light blue cotton plain weave fabric, secured to lower edge of skirt waist band with mother of pearl buttons. Apron consists of ten jui-i shaped satin strips (ju-i = scepter, symbol of prosperity). red brocade has floral pattern. The two pieces are identical, except one has slightly wider apron top, and the wider one has 11 buttons rather than three. Condition is stable with a few loose silver and gold threads. Blue cotton is soiled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 366840
label: USNM Number
content: E424346-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 98.4 cm
label: Width - At Top Of Waist
content: 70.4 cm
label: Width - At Bottom Edge
content: 88 cm