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Description
Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci showing off and wearing her colorful embroidered square apron with attached tassels. Embroidered in satin stitch, the sun in the middle is surrounded by butterflies. The Chinese character "shou" standing for longevity is stitched in an alternating pattern with the image of a moon around the border of an apron.
Date Created
2010-07-19
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Dimen Village, Village views, Visual motifs, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Garments, Women, Festive apron
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
Acknowledgements
Funding Provided by University of the Pacific
Rights Holder
Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019
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All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
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Recommended Citation
Uskov, Anastasya, "Wu Mnci's apron" (2010). All Photographs. 2750.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2750
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Dimen Village, Village views, Visual motifs, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Garments, Women, Festive apron
