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Ancient, antique and ethnographic textiles
 Africa

 

 

SE183  DRESS
CENTRAL ASIA, NURISTAN  20th century
silk and metallic thread embroidery (at the yoke) on commercial black cotton cloth; metallic silver-like cylindrical beads at hem and cuffs; with one inseam pocket; back has no embroidery except for back sleeve edges; 36” neck to hem X 64”
collected in Afghanistan in 1972