Shirt

Museum number:
9-15691
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015691
Alternate number:
1182 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Boy's shirt; purple, floral, human figures in scenes as designs.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
INDIA: Surat
Culture or time period:
Gujarati people
Collection date:
1913
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shirts (main garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 19 inches and length 20 inches
Comment:
Plain weave, every 8th row, warp pairs crossed but not recrossed. Embroidered.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Shirt, accession number 9-15691, described as Boy's shirt; purple, floral, human figures in scenes as designs.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Shirt, accession number 9-15691, described as Boy's shirt; purple, floral, human figures in scenes as designs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 9-15691, described as Boy's shirt; purple, floral, human figures in scenes as designs.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 9-15691, described as Boy's shirt; purple, floral, human figures in scenes as designs.

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