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Zotung Chin
Burma, Northern or Central Chin State

Mantle-cloth (cawng nak), 1925/50

Silk, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; two loom widths joined with silk in overcast stitches
194.5 x 127.6 cm (76 5/8 x 50 1/4 in.)
Loomed width: 60-64.2 cm (23 5/8-25 1/4 in.)
Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment, 2003.314




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