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Object Name
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clothes wrapper
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Basket Maker
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Chinese Government Collection
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Date Collected
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1884
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Temporal Coverage
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Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (清)
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Description
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1 cotton clothes wrapper. Used for wrapping up cloth articles.
Printed and painted.
3 panels stitched together to make one piece.
White cotton, printed decoration in wide blue with white border of flowers, birds, plants, dots, interlocking geometric motif. Main field is mustard color. Round fields in each corner contain knot in pink and misc objects in blue and green. Large round field in center has birds and flowers in green, blue, pink, purple, and yellow. Remaining areas have 3-lobed fields with blue flower design. Associated with stamps 11201 and 11210.
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Classification
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textile
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Materials
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cotton
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Provenance
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Shanghai, Kiangsu (Jiangsu) Province, China
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Measurements
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123 cm length
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119 cm width
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Museum Object Numbers
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UMMAA 12408
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S370
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Rights Holder
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University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
