Waist

Museum number:
3-11052a
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.897
Description:
Dress waist; brown silk with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored in Mexico.
Donor:
Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, unspecified
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Ynes Mexia
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight-heavy; conservation
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Waist, accession number 3-11052a, described as Dress waist; brown silk with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored in Mexico.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Waist, accession number 3-11052a, described as Dress waist; brown silk with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored in Mexico.

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