A work made of outer panels: cotton, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by complementary ground wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; ends embroidered with cotton in buttonhole stitches; central panel: cotton and silk, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; seam embroidered with cotton in scroll stitches.

Man's Ceremonial Loin Cloth (pa deri)

1920/40

Khami Chin Burma, NW Rakhine State

Myanmar

Outer panels: cotton, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by complementary ground wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; ends embroidered with cotton in buttonhole stitches; central panel: cotton and silk, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; seam embroidered with cotton in scroll stitches

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