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Skirt3627/1 a

Gathered front skirt with wrap-around waistband; long ties on either side of band. Skirt is red with yellow stripes, trimmed with white ones, throughout; stripe pattern runs horizontally along waistband and vertically across main body. Embroidered flowers underneath and between stripe patterns; done in white with dark purple centres, and green leaves. Waistband is bordered with sequins along bottom and top left edges, and skirt is trimmed with white lace; lace has floral motifs surrounded by circles throughout. Additional lace band towards bottom edge of skirt, with pleats underneath. Waistband lined with cream fabric.

Culture
Czech
Material
cotton fibre, synthetic fibre, plastic and dye
Made in
Moravia, Czech Republic
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/4

A rectangular black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are hemmed in black and red, with a white zigzag stitch along the edge. The band has five horizontal rows, three of which are patterned with white thread and some red in the background, and two of which are black with two horizontal white lines through them. The top and bottom row have a double zigzag pattern. The rest of the row is patterned with diamond shapes. The middle row has a repeating diamond pattern, with smaller diamonds inside the larger ones. The top, middle, and bottom rows have a space in the pattern towards the right edge where the background colour is visible without pattern.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/3

A rectangular brown-black cloth with a wide patterned band lengthwise across the lower third. The band is made up of thick red and pink horizontal stripes and thin purple and green stripes. The pattern is a thin repeating vertical zigzag in tan. The zigzags have spirals on each outer point. There is a vertical band towards the left edge of the pattern where the zigzags stop and the tan fibre is woven straight across.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Over Skirt3097/2

A rectangular black cloth with a wide, colourful, patterned band lengthwise across the lower half. The side and bottom edges of the cloth are bordered in red, with green and pink dots along the edge. The band has three horizontal rows, each patterned with horse motifs in profile. The top and bottom row have a dark red background, and the middle row has a background of horizontal red, black, and green stripes. There are colourful patterned borders between the rows. All three rows begin (left-right) with two horses, the bottom four facing down and the top two facing up. All the rows have a space in the pattern where the background colour is visible without pattern. After the space, the horses in the top and bottom rows are alternately facing up and down the cloth in pairs, repeated across the textile. The middle row has a horizontal zigzag line with spirals on either side, bordered by another line. In the empty triangles made by the zigzag pattern, is a single horse motif facing away from the middle of the row. There are also alpaca(?) and dog(?) motifs in some triangular spaces along with the horse.

Culture
Quechua and Aymara
Material
alpaca wool fibre, synthetic dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Tarabuco, Chuquisaca, Bolivia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Miniature Skirt3557/10

Rope skirt sealed inside a plastic bag; bag is secured shut with a paper manufacturer's label stapled over the opening. Skirt has a long waist band; one side has a looped end, other ends in a thick open braid. Along length of band are two sections of braided fringe; one section of fringe is longer than the other. Orange card inserted into bag, behind skirt, with image of people wearing the skirt and one of the skirt by itself; paragraph of text describe maker, material, and how it was worn.

Culture
Au
Material
bark fibre, platstic and metal
Made in
Sandaun, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3587/45

Tube skirt with warp ikat patterning. The tube skirt is composed of 5 panels stitched together, then folded and stitched down one side to create a tube. The smallest section is a rose pink band of 3 small panels, then a wider band of a rust brown, and then the largest section of woven stripe design in black and some white on a red background and a large black band at the bottom edges.

Culture
Shan
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Shan” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3587/50

Striped tube skirt. Skirt made from three pieces of fabric sewn together and then again, along one side, to form a tube. Woven striped design in red, black and off-white with bands of red, pink, blue, yellow, green, off-white and black at the top and bottom edges.

Culture
Palaung: Pale
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
“Myanmar: Shan, Taunggyi” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3559/57

Pleated indigo-dyed skirt with high waist and unfinished upper edge. Two pink woven panels decorate centre and bottom edge of skirt; painted decorations and applique throughout indigo sections. Painted decorations consist of white lines, "X"'s, concentric diamonds, and inverted triangles. Applique designs consist of pink "X"'s, "V"'s, and plain lines, multicoloured triangles, as well as white rectangles with multicoloured diamonds. Panels have white zigzags and lizard-like designs woven throughout them. White applique bands with triangles throughout woven panel designs; edges of panel are trimmed with diamond filled applique bands. Bottom edge of skirt is trimmed with white and pink stripes.

Culture
Hmong
Material
cotton fibre, indigo dye and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3536/5

Small dance skirt(?) with fringe composed of numerous, short thin strips of grass woven into a waistband. Band is made up of twisted fibre; two cords of knotted fibre on each end. Fringe has a repeating stripe pattern of dark purple, dark orange and green.

Culture
New Guinea
Material
grass fibre and dye
Made in
Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Skirt3522/20

Dance skirt consisting of a beaded waistband with strands of segmented reeds(?) extending from the bottom edge. Waistband is decorated with an alternating red and blue horizontal stripe pattern; single yellow bead inside a red stripe. Braided plant fibre loops with cords extend from either end of the band, for securing. Groupings of large, hollow and triangular seeds are strung through the bottoms of the strands; second from left and right sides has only one seed, rest of strands have two.

Culture
Krahn
Material
plastic, seed, plant fibre and reed grass ?
Made in
Liberia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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