Mourning Cape
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: Paiwan tribe, Pingtung Hsien, Raisha to Rikirikisha (village) area, Taiwan (SW Formosa). Mourning cape. Worn during customary mourning periods. Indigo-dyed blue ramie base with interwoven red wool stripes, with snakeskin and flame embroidered design crossbands. As usual, such capes are constructed of three pieces of cloth in the customary loom width, which are stitched together to make a square or rectangle. Probably late 19th to early 20th century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiwan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281393
label: USNM Number
content: E410109-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape