Dress Skirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1897
name: label: Donor Name
content: M A. Tribolet
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR GIRL. (QAHCEI HTAMEIN, "BROCADE SKIRT"-BROCADE HTAMEIN (SKIRT FOR FORMAL WEAR, CHILD'S). SILK, BURMESE TRUE BROCADE, IN TYPICAL BURMESE BROCADE PATTERN. THIS TYPE OF SKIRT NOT SEWN UP INTO A TUBE. HAS A TRAIN OF ABOUT 7" (ABOUT 1 1/2' FOR WOMEN) WITH A WIDE PURPLISH VELVET PIECE (WIDER THAN FOR A LONGYI) AT TOP USUALLY REACHING FROM WAIST TO HIP WHEN WORN; AT THE BOTTOM ANOTHER STIRP SEWN ON; A SOLID COLOR WITH STRIPES. (FOR WOMEN THE WHOLE HTAMEIN OR SKIRT IS LINED WITH WHITE CLOTH ON THE INSIDE WORN WRAPPED AROUND THE WAIST LIKE LONGYI.) BRIGHT PINK IN COLOR WITH PATTERN OF ORANGE AND WHITE. STRIPES OF NAVY AND AND YELLOW. (MISS ONMA MAW, BURMA). INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Burma (Myanmar), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 032074
label: USNM Number
content: E176646-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt