Miao Hundred Bird’s Coat – Unisex – Jas

A Miao 'Hundred Birds Festival' coat.Miao culture, Guizhou province, China, 20th century.Dimensions:Length 118 cm, width from arm end to arm end 156 cm.Made out of polychrome coloured silk, felt, cotton, bird's feathers, beads, Job's tears. Jacket; for festival, to be worn by man or woman. Base cloth of unbleached, undyed cotton in diamond twill weave. Decorated with thin sheets of applied light green silk felt, with satin stitch motifs of mainly birds, in soft maroons, blues, greens, silks, probably stitched over paper cuts. Also applied narrow strips of shiny dark indigo cloth have had diamonds cut out, and are glued on then stitched over with silk. Front squares have a bird with a spiralling body and no wings. Twelve free-hanging panels at bottom, with beads set into a folded-over square of hemp, attached with Job's Tears.Condition:Some areas of discoloration and some areas of wear to the felt, a few seams loose which can be sewn together quite easily.Ref (see last 9 photos):Similar Hundred Birds coats can be found in several museum collections:-Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 2007.105.83-Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 2003.243.58-Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 2004.67.28-British Museum, museum number As1998,01.175-British Museum, museum number As1998,01.182-British Museum, museum... lees verder bij Catawiki