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Description
Doll wears the clothing styles of Green HMong women from Sayaboury, Laos. This style is defined by the plaid headdress and colorful skirts. The doll wears a black and white plaid turban, silver necklaces decorated with three silver shells, a black skirt with multi-colored embroidery and appliqué, tied with a green and pink waist sash. The doll carries a baby (wearing an embroidered hat with a red pompom on top) on her back in an embroidered baby carrier. She holds a qeej reed wind instrument, and a woven basket full of fruit hangs from her right arm. The back of the doll displays the embroidery on the long tail of her waist sash, called tw siv. Original title from SEACRC: HMong woman with baby
Format
12.75 x 6.5 x 4 in. dollmaking; embroidering; cloth; yarn; pompoms
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