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Jacket2902/107

Short dark blue jacket with open front. Rectangular piece of fabric is stitched on to form the collar. The cuffs of the sleeves have colourful appliques with vertical and horizontal stripes. The right arm seam is blue, and the left arm seam is red, and there is open space in the armpits. The sides of the jacket have red and blue trim. The back of the jacket has a flag(?) applique composed of white, red, and yellow vertical stripes. The bottom has three rows of three white buttons with pink stitching.

Culture
Akha
Material
cotton fibre, plastic and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vest2902/108

Square dark blue vest with open front and slit sleeves. Collar has stitched lines in white, pink and green with embroidered tassle designs on the bottom. The right side of vest has a small square applique slightly darker than the rest of the vest. Bottom of vest has six thin horizontal lines of colourful embroidery. Sleeves have red and blue trim, and sides of vest are embellished with four shells on either side. Back of vest has a white appliqued band along the centre with green and pink embroidery. Above the band is a flag(?) composed of white, red, and yellow-orange. Below the band are eight thin horizontal lines of muti-coloured embroidery, embellished with three vertical columns of white buttons with pink stitching.

Culture
Akha ?
Material
cotton fibre, cowrie shell and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket2902/100

Dark blue jacket with colourful embroidered geometric pattern on bottom half of back. Ends of sleeves have white and blue appliques with a stripe of colourful geometric swirl embroidery. Seams of sleeves are blue. Front of jacket is open and has a string tie in the centre to close it. A dark blue collar is stitched on. Sides of jacket have small slits.

Culture
Akha
Material
cotton fibre and indigo dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat2787/29

Hat of handspun, hand loomed black cloth. Embellished with multi-coloured embroidery, white beads, white buttons, silvery metal discs, and red ribbon edging.

Culture
Akha
Material
cotton fibre, metal, plastic and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket473/18

Black jacket with multicoloured fabric strips. Around the neck and centre opening is a black band with pink trim and patterned ends. The long sleeves have appliqué fabric strips of various widths in blue, green, red, white and gray. The lower front and back have rows of mutlitcoloured stitching and are decorated with seeds, buttons, cowrie shells and metal discs. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Akha
Material
cotton fibre ?, dye, shell, metal and seed
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leggings473/17 a-b

The leggings are black with striped designs in black, green, red, pink and yellow and decorated with white seed beads. The first panel has wide vertical stripes in green and red and thin horizontal stripes in yellow, red, blue and pink. The panel is outlined on three of four sides with white beads. The second panel has five horizontal stripes; two thick green stripes and a thin black, red and yellow stripe. The panel is outlined along one edge with spaced white beads and the other sides with red stitching. The bottom panel is a series of horizontal lines of pink, green and red. The bottom cuff is lined with green fabric and white beads.

Culture
Akha
Material
cotton fibre ?, seed and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beads473/20 b

The beads are strung on 22 strands with fur and round fibre tassels. On four strands, white beads are sewn to both sides of a thin piece of red cloth. On two strands, flat red disc-like beads are alternated with round black beads and each strand has two red fur tassels tied on. There are five strands of white rectangular beads. There are six black strands; the top half are braided and the lower half are loose. On some loose black strands pieces of skin are tied. The bottom of all strands, except the black, have a multicoloured fibre ball. The top ends of the strands are tied together.

Culture
Akha
Material
seed, fibre, skin, animal hair and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Buckle473/23 a-b

Part a is the buckle and part b is the hook of the buckle. The buckle is in the shape of a flower, has ten petals, and is decorated with small lines and circles around a hole in its centre. The hook of the buckle protrudes through the hole in the centre of the buckle. The portion of the hook that extends through the hole and is seen on the front of the buckle consists of two thin bands of metal that protrude to a long edge with a large metal button on the end. The portion of the hook that is on the underside of the buckle consists of two thin bands of metal that fork into two pieces.

Culture
Akha
Material
silver metal ?
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Buckle473/22 a-b

Part a: Round silver buckle with a scalloped edge, round centre hole, and concentric, lower-like designs. Part b: Round silver buckle hook with a y-shaped end.

Culture
Akha
Material
silver metal ?
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Earrings473/33 a-b

Two silvery circular hook earrings with three circles forming a triangle at the top and a downward pointing triangle with a floral design in the middle, from which emanates rows around the top quarter of the earring. There are remnants of a green-blue colour in the central triangle.

Culture
Akha
Material
silver metal ?
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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