Burmese textiles from the Shan and Kachin districts.
Contributors: Bankfield Museum (Halifax)
Series: Bankfield Museumnotes -- No.7
Publisher: Bankfield Museum
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Halifax
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Description: PREFACE.
The Shan and Kachin textiles and garments, the consideration and discussion of which form the subject of the following notes, were collected in Burma by Mr. E. C. S. George, C.I.E., at the end of last century, whilst he was on the Commission for the delimitation of the Burma-China boundary.
Belonging to a race of people with whom the world at large has little contact, the skill and craftmanship displayed in the weaving, dyeing and decoration of these cloths should prove of general interest.
With the hope that the results of my investigations may be of value, not only to the visitor to Bankfield Museum, but to many students of ethnology and handicraft to whom that collection may be inaccessible, these notes, fully illustrated, are now offered to my readers.
A short account of the Shan and Kachin races has been included and those to whom a further study of these interesting peoples may appeal, are referred to that excellent work, The Gazetteer of Upper Burma and The Shan States, Rangoon, 1900, edited by Sir J. G. Scott and J. P. Hardman.
It is with pleasure I acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Ling Roth, not only for the opportunity he has afforded me of examining and describing these cloths, but also for the valuable assistance he has given me in carrying out that work.
March, 1917.                                                                     LAURA    E.    START.
Table of contents: value: THE GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION OF THE SHAN STATES             ...              ...         2; value: THE HISTORY OF THE SHANS OR TAI, THEIR APPEARANCE AND DRESS      ...         3; value: THE ARTS OF WEAVING   AND   DYEING, WITH A  NOTE   ON   NATIVE   DESIGN AND   METHODS OF DECORATION 7; value: DISCUSSION   OF   THE   SHAN   GARMENTS   AND   TEXTILES   13; value: THE KACHINS, THEIR ORIGIN, HABITAT, DRESS AND ORNAMENTS 37; value: DESCRIPTION OF THE KACHIN GARMENTS AND WALLETS 44