Cloth
2016-20-37
From: Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2016-20-37 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands |
| Date Made | Late 19th-Century |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Pineapple Fiber | Cotton |
| Technique | Woven | Embroidered |
| Description | Small length of piña (pineapple fiber) cloth with an uncut, embroidered pattern in cotton. Sheer, cream-colored, hemmed at one end. Pattern includes groups of alternating pairs of butterflies and delicate sprays of flowers and leaves, and a broad area of scattered butterflies. Butterfly wings feature lacework. Patterned areas outlined with cotton thread. Yellowed. Displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. |
| Length | 130 cm |
| Width | 73.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016 |
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