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Scarf3511/8

Maroon scarf (selendang) with fringe on ends. Eleven decorated bands across length. Centre band is dark red, trimmed with white stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre. From each side of centre band the patterns are identical. From centre outward bands are: maroon with repeating dark orange crosses, sun-like motifs, butterfly-like motifs, geometric and linear motifs; dark red, trimmed with dark blue stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre; dark orange triangles on maroon, trimmed with yellow stripe; dark red, trimmed with black stripes, with dark orange dashes through centre; and dark purple with dark blue vertical stripes. Fringe along left side is twisted; fringe along right is loose.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
fibre and vegetable dye
Made in
Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3511/9

Dark red scarf (selendang) with fringe on ends. Top and bottom edges of scarf have a dark maroon border, with light orange dashes throughout. Repeating pattern of pointed ovals, filled with floral and linear motifs, through centre of scarf. Ovals are connected by dots. Negative space, between ovals and border, filled with identical floral and linear designs. Border on both ends, consisting of three vertical bands. Outer and inner bands have a dot motif; centre band has a repeating triangle motif. All designs are done in red-brown and dark orange. Fringe on ends are tied into bundles with plant fibre; six bundles on left edge, five on right.

Culture
Eastern Indonesian
Material
fibre, dye and plant fibre
Made in
Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3080/29

Scarf. Garment is made of dark blue cotton with heavy embroidery on each end showing diamond shapes and triangles in colours of white, dark pink, blue, green and tan. Along edges of the embroidered portions are small pompoms in light tan, and a single tassel of red hangs from one corner.

Culture
Hmong
Material
dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Muang Sing, Louangnamtha, Laos
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3295/25

Long rectangular black textile embroidered with earth-tones. Embroidery consists of four main panels of geometric designs, separated by thin bands of varying repeating patterns and stripes, and finished with orange embroidery that extends out as vertical lines on each end. Either end is plain black, with thin black tassels.

Culture
Lao
Material
silk fibre
Made in
Laos
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3295/23

Double-woven scarf, with a light side and a dark side. The scarf is divided into sections by changing colours - black to brown on one side, and the negative on the opposite side. The overall pattern is large repeating diamonds with smaller repeating geometric shapes, and thin lines of red.

Culture
Malay ?
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Malaysia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3252/6

Brightly coloured scarf. Long rectangular cloth is made of synthetic fabric with a metallic sheen. On a blue background sit rows of feather shapes containing green lines below an oval of pink, red, and yellow. Interspersed with these are lines of blue or pink butterflies along with white and red feather-like motifs. One edge and both ends are unhemmed.

Culture
Tajik
Material
synthetic fibre
Made in
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3261/118

Long, rectangular shaped, black felt scarf with red felt appliqué design of a frog in profile, at each end. When worn around neck, one frog faces up, one faces down. A 'Feastwear' label is attached inside at back centre.

Culture
Haida
Material
wool fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf3188/11 a-c

Three pieces (parts a-c) of finely woven, gauze cotton of different lengths and widths. Each piece has panels of embroidery in white and green, with diamond-shaped and floral motifs in yellow, pink, blue and red. Part ‘a’ is very long and thin, with an embroidered panel at each end and two near midpoint. Part ‘b’ is shorter and wider, made of two pieces of white cotton delicately sewn together in a long centre seam. Panels at each end. Part ‘c’ is the smallest and roughly square, with a single panel at one end.

Culture
Amhara
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Ethiopia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scarf2012-211/25

The cotton cloth is white. The ink is red.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth and Tla-o-qui-aht
Material
cotton cloth and ink
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Scarf2012-211/23

The cotton cloth is white. The ink is brown.

Material
cotton cloth and ink
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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