Blouse
2003-31-64
From: Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-31-64 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands |
| Date Made | Late 19th-Century |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Pineapple Fiber | Cotton |
| Technique | Woven | Embroidered |
| Description | A Philippine camisa or baro (blouse) woven from piña (pineapple fiber). Images of rolling vines with leaves and flowers embroidered with cotton on sleeve edges. Blouses like this one were worn by elite Filipina women in a popular dress from the 1800s called the traje de mestiza (mestiza dress). Tag attached reads: “D-55 / WAIST / 40745 / Worn by “Mestizas,” and the better class of native girls / Locality: Burnane, Leyte P.I. / Exhibitor: Women’s Committee.” Displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, St. Louis 1904. |
| Length | 36 cm |
| Width | 115.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1994.X.14163 - Other Number |
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