Jacket
ClassificationsClothing and Adornments-principal attire (upper body)
Culture
Miao
Dateearly 20th Century
MediumLinen and silk
Dimensions55 × 33 1/2 in. (139.7 × 85.1 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift
Object number2019.22.77
DescriptionJacket; Black jacket embroidered with orange, red and blue thread creating motifs throughout the jacket of anthropomorphic and animistic imagery. Scenes depicted on this jacket consist of the following: Anthropomorphic figures on a dragon gondola, two facing scenes of three men holding on to a rope tied around the legs of two fighting bulls, 4 scenes of two men carrying a anthropomorphic figure in a carrying structure, trumpet players, butterflies, couple of crabs, a round red angry faced circle (possibly portraying the sun) and a few temples. These scenes are throughout the jacket except for a portion of the proper right hand left, back and front.On View
Not on view
mid 20th Century
late 19th Century
18th to 19th Century
18th to 19th Century
20th Century
Miao
1644-1911
