MVC-0384 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Textile stamp; horizontal border block; patterned band on either side of a center strip of flowing leaf medallions surrounded by fields of small diamonds.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Sinhalese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1960s
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
textile manufacture
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 2.3 centimeters, length 15.8 centimeters, and width 7.7 centimeters