Mummies from Xinjiang, Displayed at Penn Museum

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Edward Rothstein, Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey. New York Times, Feb 21, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/arts/design/21silk.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=xinjiang&st=cse

Note:
(a) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania_Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology
(commonly called The Penn Museum; Established 1887)
(b) Please see the slideshow first.

cloak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak
(cloaks are almost always sleeveless)
(c) iIn the caption of the last photo:

Yingpan 新疆巴音郭楞蒙古自治州尉犁县 营盘 遗址
(d) ephemera (n; New Latin, from Greek ephēmera, neuter plural of ephēmeros; plural ephemera or ephemerae or ephemeras)
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