SMITHSONIAN WIISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 123, NO. 1, PL. 15 



Upper Ch-uan Miao woman's embroidered sleeves and (center) breast cover. Note the fine 

 .eome (c destns. Lo...., Chuan Mmo embro.denes. It takes about 3 years of steady work for 

 fZZ rio the embmidery work on her clod^mg. For th.s reason ^^ ^h uan M.ao ^^e 

 ranidlv discarding these embroideries and the art will soon be lost. The pattern on the extreme 

 left with the Sdesic^ns has been found bv Dr. Carl Schuster and others as far west as Rumania, 

 among peasant embroideries. Photographs courtesy of West China Union University Museum. 



