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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
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