axrush / attush

Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Outer garment

Long outer garment, sewn together from four almost equally wide fabric panels. Two panels form the body, one panel each for the sleeves, partly folded into a triangle. folded into a triangle. In contrast to the similar Japanese garment (jap. kosode) attush garments do not have a front part (jap. okumi). The garment is sewn by hand with stitched by hand. The fabric panels are made of bark bast (attush), into which strips (shiriki) of imported strips (shiriki) of imported dark blue cotton are woven in lengthways. The collar is made of of black-blue, plain-weave cotton fabric is appliquéd over the front of each panel and sewn on at the neck. sewn onto the neck. The inside of the collar is lined with pieces of old attush fabric, partly with remnants of embroidery. Along the hem, on the back and at both sleeve openings back and both sleeve openings are appliqués made from wide strips of imported plain weave cotton cotton fabric in black and blue. Additionally appliquéd on top is a of narrower bands of natural white fabric and additional bands of red fabric, both presumably cotton. red fabric, both presumably cotton.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
clothing
Dimensions
1280 x 1340 x 120 mm
Material/Technique
Elm bast fibre; cotton fibre;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 10699
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    when
    between April and May 1881
    where
    Hokkaido
    who
    Joest, Wilhelm - Former Possessors
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