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Length of piña cloth
Filipino
19th century
Object Place: Philippines
Medium/Technique
Pineapple leaf fiber (piña), plain-weave with silk supplementary patterning warps
Dimensions
Overall: 1143 x 40.3 cm (450 x 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Mary Lee, Guy Hunter Lee, Mrs. Henry Jackson, Mrs. Thornton K. Ware, and Mrs. Joseph T. Walker, in memory of Marion Glidden Dove Lee (Mrs. Francis Wilson Lee)
Accession Number49.456
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionLength of cloth with design of alternating stripes of yellow silk and white piña in supplementary patterning warps on white piña ground; selvedge on one side.
ProvenanceGift from Miss Mary Lee, Guy Hunter Lee, Mrs. Henry Jackson, Mrs. Thornton K. Ware and Mrs. Joseph T. Walker, in memory of Marion Glidden Dove (Mrs. Francis Wilson) Lee, to the MFA, May, 12 1949