This cotton textile has a warp-face (longitude threads) in buff and brown cotton. It is decorated by supplementary weft (horizontal threads) with vertical thin blue and red stripes. The red stripes are separated by broader stripes and the broader stripes are covered in strings of shell-beads, which cover most of the ground across the vertical bands. These shell-beads are used by the Formosan aborigines as money or ornamentation. This textile was probably worn as a skirt.
