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Description
Photo from Dimen Village of a in traditional attire stretching and twisting skeins of cotton with a wooden dowel before leaving them to dry on bamboo poles. This part of the process makes the cotton stronger and tougher.
Date Created
2010-07-26
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Dimen Village, Crafts, Frame loom, Spinning and preparing thread, Complete women’s garment, Under 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
Lee, Marie Anna, "Woman wringing cotton skeins" (2010). All Photographs. 2795.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2795
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Photograph, Dimen Village, Crafts, Frame loom, Spinning and preparing thread, Complete women’s garment, Under apron
