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Document Details : Title: Khil'a Author(s): GORDON, Stewart Journal: Khil'a Volume: 3 Date: 2007-2009 Pages: 17-23 DOI: 10.2143/KH.3.0.2066220 Abstract : In this article, Stewart Gordon explores the world of Khil'a, the ceremony that featured elite textiles sewn into particular garments to define a relationship of honourable service. Between about 600 BC and AD 1900, this ceremony was practised at courts from China in the East to the Atlantic Coast of North-western Africa. |
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