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Paiwan

Mourning Cloth

1874-1909

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Mourning Cloth

Paiwan

Mourning Cloth

Paiwan

Mourning Cloth

1874-1909

Physical Qualities Indigo-dyed ramie with wool embroidery, 23 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (59.7 × 28.9 cm.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 2021.219
This is a single panel from a larger, three-panel cloth.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase 2021; Thomas Murray Arts, Mill Valley, California, by purchase; Tadashi Morita, Tokyo
[Asian Refresh]
Asian Gallery Rotations 2023
Asian Rotations 2024
Hueiyun Chen, "Form and Meaning in Paiwanese Art and Material Culture," August 2015 thesis submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, Research School of Humanities and the Arts

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2000–2000

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