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Skirt2902/62

Full, short skirt with light brown bunched waist band with pink stitching and thin dark blue ties. Skirt is dark blue with batiked geometric designs and dark pink appliqued stripes and zigzags. Bottom of skirt has thick band of dark pink applique with embroidered 'X' and geometric designs. Skirt is open at back, and is secured together with the ties and a pink wool loop and tie. Right end of waist band has two rusty nails pinned through fabric.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, indigo dye and metal
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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Apron2902/113

Long rectangular apron with very long pink ties. Apron has rectangle of orange embroidery in the centre with appliqued blue diamonds with white and pink star designs. A vertical band of black fabric with yellow, pink and white star designs runs down the centre of the orange embroidery and also borders the outside of it. The back of the apron is black. The two long pink ties flare out at the ends and are decorated with multi-coloured geometric embroidery.

Culture
Hmong ?
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket2902/106

Large long dark blue jacket with open front. Collar is long and extends down to jacket waist and has a pink wool trim around white and blue embroidery with snowflake designs. There are two light brown stripes on the ends of the sleeves and white, red and yellow snowflake embroidery on the front and back of the shoulders. The sides are slit up to the waist and the tops of the slits have tassels with beads and dark red wool. The neck of the collar has a red applique with snowflake embroidery.

Culture
Mien
Material
cotton fibre, glass and indigo dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt2902/111

Small short skirt with light brown bunched waist band and thin light brown ties. Skirt is dark blue with batiked geometric designs and dark pink appliqued stripes and zigzags.

Culture
Hmong
Material
cotton fibre and indigo dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket2902/104

Large long dark blue jacket with open front. Collar is long and extends down to jacket waist and has a red wool trim around white and blue embroidery with snowflake designs. Jacket has light blue trim on the edges and two light blue stripes on the ends of the sleeves. There is white, green, red and yellow snowflake embroidery on the bottom of the back of the jacket and on the shoulders. The sides are slit up to the waist and the tops of the slits have tassels with beads and red wool. The neck of the collar also has strings of beads with red tassles which hang down the back of the jacket.

Culture
Mien
Material
fibre, wool fibre, metal, glass 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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Jacket2902/101

Short black jacket with rectangular collar that hangs down the back of the neck. Collar has an intricate black and white geometric pattern with green and pink embroidery, and red trim. Front of jacket is open and has striped red and blue edging along the front flaps. The sleeves have black and blue vertical stripes and three embroidered stripes, two with geometric designs and one with swirls.

Culture
Hmong
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wedding Panel2903/83

Embroidered wedding textile with four scenes stacked vertically. The central images are surrounded by two borders. At the top of the textile, there is a large bird with its wings spread wide. In the background, there are light and dark green plants and a sloping branch in the lower left corner of the bird’s section of the panel. Separating the top panel from the next, there is an orange line followed by a purple line. Underneath the purple line, the word ‘matrimonio’ is written in pink lettering. The word is flanked on either side by red and white flags. The word ‘matrimonio’ seems to sit on top of a structure in which four people are sitting. The structure has a black outline and the walls have an inner blue outline surrounding orange geometric designs. The bottom of the structure is denoted by a wavy pink line and a geometric blue line. Two of the four people sitting in the house are men and two are women. Standing on the outside of the house, on the left side, there is a barefoot man with his arms upraised. There is a pink squiggly line on the left side of the man and a purple squiggly line on the right. Also, there is a green leafy plant on the ground between his legs. On the opposite side of the house, there is a woman whose arms are also upraised. In between the woman’s body and the building, there is a squiggly pink line. There is a green leafy plant on the ground between her legs. The scene is separated from the one below it by a pink line followed by an orange line. In the scene below there are two men and two women that appear to be dancing. Each person in this panel has a squiggly line on either side of them. The first woman has a purple and a pink line. Below her skirt, on the left side of the image, there is a green leafy plant. The next person to the right of the woman is a man with a blue line and an orange line around him. Also there is a green leafy plant on the ground between his legs. To his right is a woman wearing a shirt, hat, skirt and sandals. She is surrounded by a purple and orange line. Behind her left foot, there is a green leafy plant. Also, in front of her right foot, there is another green leafy plant in a darker shade. To her right is a man in a hat, shirt, pants and sandals. He has a purple line on his left and a pink line on his right. There is a green leafy plant between his legs. This section is separated from the one below by a pink line followed by a purple line. In the bottom section of the panel, there is a scene with a man and woman fishing. The woman is on the left side in a brown boat. Attached to the purple fishing line that the woman is holding is a large brown fish. She is on the far right side of her boat and behind her, on the left side, there is a blue squiggly line and a triangular structure formed out of five lines. The lines are black, red, orange and light orange. To the left of the triangular structure, there is a dark green leafy plant. Below her boat, there is a pink fish, more leafy plants and blue squiggly lines to represent water. On the right side of the panel, the man kneels in a pink and orange boat. The purple fishing line that the man holds is attached to a pink fish. There is a green leafy plant in front of the man, on the right side of the panel. Behind the man there are two blue squiggly lines contained by an orange curved line and a black curved line. On the left of this structure, there is an oval structure. It is outlined in black and has a black line through the centre. There are two curved brown lines within the structure. On the far left end of the man’s boat there is another green leafy plant. In the top left and right corners of the textile, there are looped bunches of red and black thread.

Culture
Peruvian ?
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vest2902/109

Short black vest with dark blue interior lining. Horizontally striped applique in blue, red, yellow, white and black covers entire bottom half of vest on both sides and runs vertically down both sides of the front seam.

Culture
Thai
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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