MVC-0191 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl; 150 cm x 69 cm without the fringe; fringe . 35 cm, including 13 cm of macramé; white ground has 14 ikot indigo a stripes equally spaced apart; one stripe twice the width of the others, the two edges of the shawl have 10 cm bands of ikat and narrow plain indigo lines.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Cuenca market, Cuenca, Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Ecuador; Cuenca Market
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)