Breast cover, Kahmi ethnic group, Arakan area, Burma. Cotton, silk, 15" (38 cm) high by 28" (71 cm) wide. Early to mid-20th century. This is a beautiful patterned breast cloth made with discontinuous and continuous one-faced supplementary weft patterning. The old tightly woven breast covers like this one are said to be waterproof. Professionally mounted to hang vertically, it could also be hung horizontally.