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All Southeast Asia

Bag from the Philippines

Carrying bag; Philippines, Mindanao; Bagobo culture. Abaca fiber, beads, bells, pompoms, sequins; plain weave, twill weave, beaded, lost-wax process; 46 x 38 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1966.31.1. Gift of Tom Bahti.

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Funerary Garment from Laos or Vietnam

Funerary garment (suea hii) (inside out), northern Laos or northwest Vietnam, Tai culture, 20th century. Cotton, silk; supplementary weft, plain weave; 109 x 124 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 2012.22.51. Gift of Ellison Banks Findly.

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Shaman’s Hat from Laos

Shaman’s hat (muu); Laos, Hua Phan; Tai Daeng people; 20th or 21st century. Cotton, plain weave with supplementary-weft patterning, 56 x 24 cm. The Textile Museum 2012.22.48. Gift of Ellison Findly. 

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Loincloth from Indonesia

Loincloth; Indonesia, Island of Borneo, Kalimantan; late 19th century. Cotton; plain weave, supplementary weft, songket, pilih, embroidery, tassel; 325 x 24 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 66.10. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1956.

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All Southeast Asia Student Research

How Pattern Connects us to the Past

Garment fragment; Indonesia, Java, North coast; c. 1920. Cotton batik, 15.5 in x 13 in. Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection, T-1223. Bruce M. White Photography.