Description (Labels & Markings)
Purple circular stamp in Chinese characters denoting a company name, with ’58.3.11’ stamped in centre and ’1961’ stamped to right.
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Context (Field collection)
Woman’s costume (2007.466-7, 2007.470-2) presented to Rev. Whitehorn and his first wife, Elizabeth Hope Grant Whitehorn, by the churches of north-western Paiwan territory in 1969. The costume was probably made by people from the north and western side of the territory.
Event Date 1969
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
The material was purchased from a local shop. The right to wear representations of snakes is reserved for people of high status, but the significance of the butterfly unknown, it possibly represents agility.
Event Date 29/11/2007
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Woman’s skirt made of yellow cotton cloth partly open at one side, and fastened with a loop and strap. The bottom part of the skirt is decorated with a wide strip of black velvet, decorated with beads, sequins and silver metal discs, (most likely aluminium). The beads are continuously arranged in forms of butterflies, snakes and human heads with headdresses. Attached to the base of skirt are numerous small bells. The skirt has a blue Chinese stamp below the waistband, and the remains of a label on one side.
Event Date 29/11/2007
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Remains of white label adhered to side of dress with '2' in purple ink and part of label edge in red ink.
Event Date 25/3/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Vayavay; kun. Woman’s skirt of yellow cotton cloth partly open at one side, and fastened with a loop and strap at the waist. Panel of black velvet appliquéd to lower edge and decorated with butterflies, snakes and anthropomorphic faces, wearing ovoid linear headdresses, in orange, green, yellow, white and blue glass beads, intersected by sequins. Row of aluminium discs stitched along top edge of panel; band of repeated short linear beads along bottom edge of panel, which is further strung with metal bells on small beaded loops.
Event Date 25/3/2024
Author: Heather Donoghue