Coat; plainweave elm bark fiber with narrow, widely spaced brown lengthwise stripes, black appliqué strips, white curvilinear embroidery; width across arms 114 cm, length: 115 cm.
Donor:
Hiroaki Okada
Collection place:
Hokkaidō Prefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu
Culture or time period:
Ainu
Collector:
Hiroaki Okada
Collection date:
before 1969
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (black cotton appliqué, cotton thread in chainstitch embrodery) and Elm bark (plainweave elmbark fiber)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coats (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Women's coats said to be indistinguishable from men's
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
Materials, technique: plainweave elmbark fiber, black applique, cotton thread in chainstitch embroidery
Loans:
S1969-1970 #116: Design (UC Berkeley) (April 23, 1970–April 23, 1970) and S1984-1985 #29: Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco) (March 5, 1985–May 6, 1985)