Death Blanket of yarn dyed, hand-woven coarse cotton loosely woven in narrow stripes and sewn together
- Title
- Death Blanket of yarn dyed, hand-woven coarse cotton loosely woven in narrow stripes and sewn together
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Description
- Death Blanket of yarn dyed, hand-woven coarse cotton loosely woven in narrow stripes and sewn together; the center section has four white panels edged in blue stripes and finished at the ends with 9" bands of horizontal red and green stripes; outer stripes of red and yellow; an outer band trims the ends with a braided tassel finish; small red and yellow tassels at top and bottom. Igorot tribe. Ifugao. Death Blankets were used to wrap a corpse. They sometimes had woven motifs of human figures, snakes, and/or lizards.
- Provenance
- Department purchase.
- Motif
- Stripes Figured bands Check pattern
- Work Type
- blankets (coverings)
- Location
- Philippines
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 0000.022.012
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Yarn-dyed Hand-woven Loose weave
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
