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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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Coat473/26

Black coat. Around the neck and centre opening is a thick red fringe, an embroidered geometric pattern and seven rectangular metal pieces. The sleeves are long and around the cuffs are thin stripes in red, white and black with a thin purple and metal coil trim. The lower edges have blue trim. From the top of the side slits hang two purple tassels decorated with black and white seeds and beads. On the upper back is a striped fabric square with a long red tassel decorated with metal coils, beads and painted metal discs. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Mien
Material
cotton fibre ?, metal, dye, synthetic fibre, glass and seed
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileN2.200

Long, rectangular shaped, cream textile with a repeated black and turquoise diamond pattern. The large black diamonds have a central floral design. Both the narrow ends have a black line while only one has a faded, think blue strip along with numerous red stamps of various shapes with different calligraphy.

Culture
Japanese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre ?, hemp fibre and dye
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShoesEdz1553 a-b

Pair of red shoes (part a-b) with embroidered pink flowers and green leaves. The flowers contain two shades of pink; the leaves contain two shades of green. There is a large pink flower in the centre with a pink flower on one side and a green-blue flower and pink bud on the other side. There is a white, pink, blue and black border around the opening. The soles of the shoes have a white and pink flower design with green leaves on a dark green background.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre ?, paper ? and dye
Made in
Sichuan, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoes867/7 a-b

White cloth shoes (part a-b) with a long upper portion and embroidered soles. There is a dark blue band around the bottom of the shoe with white stitching and a black patch over the toes and heel. There are four pink dots in a row on the tongue. The bottom of the soles have an outside border of green and pink outlined interlocking triangles. The green triangles are filled in with cross-hatched stitching. In the middle of the sole is a square with four purple leaves in the centre. The green stitching of the square continues over the leaves in an 'X'. The rest of the sole is covered with tiny black stitches.

Culture
Kam
Material
fibre, dye and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Guizhou, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile25/89

Fragment of off-white, loosely-woven cotton with one selvage edge.

Culture
Southwest
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Arizona, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagD2.117

Bag of felt trimmed with red seam binding and embroidered with a large flower at the bottom with a smaller flower stemming upward at either side. The large flower has four heart-shaped petals with the top two being red at the centre and the bottom two being dark green at the centre, all of which are bordered by light green and pink. The two smaller flowers at the top have two petals in profile that are red at the centre bordered by light blue. Fringe is strips of cotton with metal cones on the ends. Strap has cotton trimming decorated with silk ribbons of red and green and a strip of blue wool.

Culture
Plains
Material
wool fibre ?, glass, cotton fibre and tin metal
Made in
Manitoba, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatM4.54

Multi-coloured, embroidered hat, or skull cap. The crown is slightly conical in shape and is mounted on a straight band. Dense stitchery covers the entire surface, with linear, diagonal, geometric forms arranged in interlocking diamond shapes. The stitchery is worked on several layers of wool and cotton textiles, including a layer of cheese cloth which provides a grid upon which the designs have been worked. Colours used are purple, red, dark yellow, white, green, blue, orange and tan.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress334/1

The headdress, or headband, consists of two narrow orange pieces of fabric attached and decorated with metal discs and beads with a long braided tassel. One piece of fabric is longer than the other; the shorter piece has a red and pink embroidered panel in the centre. The pieces are attached in the centre. Along the outside edges of the larger piece thin metal discs are sewn. Smaller metal discs are sewn all over the shorter piece. Two strands of orange and yellow beads extend from the centre of the headdress, one in either direction. String and fabric loops and one red button extend from the centre piece. Attached to one of the string loops is a black braided tassel that branches into two brown and one orange tassels. The tassels are accented with orange and brown wrapped thread and black and white beadwork.

Culture
Bedouin
Material
cotton fibre ?, metal, glass, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Egypt
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket1676/3

Brown woven hanten (袢纏, also written as 半天, 袢天, 半纏) made of sakiori (裂織) textile. The woven fabric consists of brown, blue, purple and red pieces. There is a wide blue band around the neck and partway down the centre opening. The opening and sleeve edges are edged with blue trim. The sleeves are slightly tapered. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Japanese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Toyama, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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