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A work made of cotton, plain weave with patterning wefts; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches; all edges finished with cotton, glass-bead and seed-pod fringe terminating in outer silk or silk and cotton-knotted fringe.

Woman's Beaded Breast-Cover (ne kouk)

1925/50

Khumi Chin Burma, Northwest Rakhine State

Myanmar

Cotton, plain weave with patterning wefts; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches; all edges finished with cotton, glass-bead and seed-pod fringe terminating in outer silk or silk and cotton-knotted fringe

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