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Fireman's Pants, Hakama.
Hakama
Fireman's Pants, Hakama.
Fireman's Pants, Hakama.
Museum of International Folk Art; Gift of the Lloyd E. Cotsen and Neutrogena Corporation Collection. Photographs by Pat Pollard.
DepartmentTextiles-Asia

Hakama

NamePants
Artist Artist Not Recorded
DateLate 19th century
Place madeJapan, East Asia, Asia
MediumCotton
Dimensions36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen and the Neutrogena Corporation, A.1995.93.500
Object numberA.1995.93.500
DescriptionThe pants are made of a heavy SASHIKO (quilt stitched) cotton which has been painted on the interior of the legs. Each leg has an image of a man with light brown hair (a foreigner?). One is bald and bearded and holds a fish up to the dark stormy skies. A basket rests near him. The other pant leg show a man seemingly running to his basket of fish (fisherman?). There are plants and rocks around them, and the skies look smoky. The pants have been made to fit closely to the contour of the leg of the wearer; colors are browns, grays, blue, blue-green, light green, salmon, black; made of cotton with quilting and dye painted.
Curing Set (Cuadrilla)
Darío Soteno Léon
1997
Figure, man with basket over arm
Herón Martínez Mendoza
c. 1958
Photography by Kellen Hope
Late 1970s - early 1980s
Pants
Artist Not Recorded
Libās
Artist Not Recorded
early 20th century
Viejo Moranchi-Detail.
Artist Not Recorded
ca. 1987
Shepherd
late 1980s- 1990s
Doll
1920-1972