Shawl

Museum number:
9-21559
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0529 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl; L=195 cm x W=75 cm; with 3.5 cm fringe; plaid silk; 3/1 twill of silk, in magenta, purple, green, gold, white & blue; front shows warp dominant stripes, back is weft dominant.
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:
1963
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman’s garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 75 centimeters and length 195 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: good
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21559, described as Shawl; L=195 cm x W=75 cm; with 3.5 cm fringe; plaid silk; 3/1 twill of silk, in magenta, purple, green, gold, white & blue; front shows warp dominant stripes, back is weft dominant.

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