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The Kent
State University Museum has a wide array of traditional and
regional costumes and textiles. Of special significance is the
Chinese collection, consisting of hundreds of pieces, such as
banners that hung behind the throne in the Forbidden City, numerous
summer and fur-lined winter court robes, lotus slippers for
bound feet, king-fisher feather hair ornaments, and Imperial
guard uniforms. The Museum collects garments from all over the
world, and due to Northeast Ohio's local population, has strong
holdings of central European garments. In conjunction with the
extensive Romanian costume collection of Duquesne University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Kent State University Museum
dedicated all nine of its galleries to an exhibition on Romanian
costume in 1991-1992. The catalog of the exhibition is available
for purchase at the museum
store.
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