A embroidered festive robe worked in brightly coloured silks with butterflies, birds, fish and flowers and applied with geometric decoration, edged with embroidered streamers trimmed with seeds and white chicken feathers; another robe of turquoise silk, similarly worked; and a jacket of black cotton, embroidered with writhing dragons in yellow silk and trimmed with seeds and feathers, Miao Chinese, 20th century (3)

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A embroidered festive robe worked in brightly coloured silks with butterflies, birds, fish and flowers and applied with geometric decoration, edged with embroidered streamers trimmed with seeds and white chicken feathers; another robe of turquoise silk, similarly worked; and a jacket of black cotton, embroidered with writhing dragons in yellow silk and trimmed with seeds and feathers, Miao Chinese, 20th century (3)

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