Catalog Number
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Catalog Number |
CAS 2006-0002-0009 | |
| Category | Accessories/Ornaments; Textiles | |
| Object Name | Belt | |
| Culture | Japanese | |
| Global Region | East Asia | |
| Country | Japan | |
| State/Prov./Dist. | Okinawa Prefecture | |
| County | ||
| Other Geographic Data | Taketomi Island | |
| Maker's Name | Unknown | |
| Date of Manufacture | ca. 1970s | |
| Collection Name | N/A | |
| Materials | Cotton; Indigo | |
| Description | Narrow indigo-dyed belt woven in a warp-faced technique with an ikat pattern of alternating four and five white rectangles on an indigo blue background; Traditionally these belts were woven by young girls for their fiancés when they became engaged; In the Okinawan dialect, the words “four and five” can be pronounced as “itunuyu” which also translates as “forever” or “eternally”, and thus the pattern reflects the young girl’s sentiments. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Width = 5.2, Thickness = 0.1, Length = 128.0 | |