129403 Catalog Card

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Title 129403 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-9 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: South Central Mindanao. | People: Bila=an. Stock. | Name: Albōñ :- Woman's hemp cloth jacket. Red body, black sleeves. Embroidery onshoulders and wrist bands. The lower half of the waist is a separate piece of cloth which has been sewed on. It has | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: the white designs produced by oversewing before dyeing (see no129388) (over) | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?2.00.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129403 | ENT | (1855) | 1139 | Acc. [1115 was crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] The designs on the waistband of this jacket are procured by oversewing the cloth with (warped?) thread prior to dyeing. This method of decoration is highly developed by the neighboring Kulaman, but women of this tribe also understand and use the process. The skirtpatterns are secured by overtying the warp threads before they are colored and woven into cloth. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 129403 Catalog Card, [0.411 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Sarah Carlson : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Rachel B. Blake : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology