Man's Leggings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Oct 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Province M. Henry
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes, written on tag attached to object: Pyuma tribe, Taitung Hsein, Shin Shabakan (village), Taiwan. Leggings ("chaps"). Used by noble class (aat least, in early times) for ceremonious occssions. Hand-loomed [woven] black ramie fiber, with inwoven Chinese woolen yarn stripes. The leg trim bands are fully embroidered with snake and flame motifs on grey ramie, and like the woven waist band, is sewn on… It is said that the band was used as a kind of money belt for securing small valuables, which may have been useful during some of the festive drinking gatherings. This is probably a 20th century piece, but the sewn-on trim strips may be earlier than the woven base garment, as such bands were often transferred to a new base when older clothing wore out.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiwan
label: Culture
content: Puyuma
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281393
label: USNM Number
content: E410254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Legging