34629 Catalog Card

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Title 34629 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-14 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Mindanao Island, Lake Lanao. | People: Moro. | Stock. | Name: Sarong, a skirt worn by either sex, being 210 cm of cotton cloth 181 cm.wide, stitched together. The garment shows banded in red, orange, yellow, green, and purple. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Dr A.E. Jenks, Coll. | Notes: | Price: | copied to PRL [handwritten] |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34629 | 3 | Acc. 989 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] The women weave cloth of good quality which they make into sarongs- skirts and other articles of clothing. The work is executed upon efficient though primitive hand looms, the diversity of patterns being obtained by the manipulation of many colored threads. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 34629 | 989 - 34629 Catalog Card, [0.304 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Sarah Carlson : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology