Manuscript Record Of Paku Karen Textile Patterns

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Burma: ca 1860s? . One-page manuscript, 17.5 x 11 with six horizontal textile patterns divided by 5 narrower patterns, completed in pencil with accompanying ink annotations; old folds, neat repairs to one tear and another shallow closed tear along a fold touching some of the pattern, very good. Each pattern is annotated in pen with what appears to be comments on interpretation. For example, Ahrayas + en or + au truth Etrusian. H March alphabet etc. The manuscript header reads Nau Pwaku's

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