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Woman's Black Hand-woven Clothes
Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China
Beijing, China
These are the traditional clothes of a Yeche woman. The Yeche are a branch of Hani. The black cloth is hand woven and dyed.Yeche women wear shorts and collarless jackets with silver ornaments at the waist. The jackets are worn in many layers. The greater the number of layers, the greater the wealth of the woman wearing it. This particular garment has 9 to 12 layers.
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- Title: Woman's Black Hand-woven Clothes
- Provenance: Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China
- Original Source: http://bwg.muc.edu.cn/
- Object type: Clothes
- Ethnic group: Hani
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