Beaded belt

Museum number:
9-12037a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2952
Description:
Sari border; beaded in tones of grey, white, yellow and green on black velvet ribbon; floral motifs; attached to silk saris by Parsi women. the longer piece goes around the bottom hem, the shorter edges only those parts brought over the chest and shoulders and/or head. Beaded borders were about the only kind traditionally permitted menstruating women, since their colors did not run after the mandatory post-menstrual washing of all clothing.
Donor:
Mrs. Mani Hakim
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Beaded belt, accession number 9-12037a,b, described as Sari border; beaded in tones of grey, white, yellow and green on black velvet ribbon; floral motifs; attached to silk saris by Parsi women. the longer piece goes around the bottom hem, the shorter edges only those parts brought over the chest and shoulders and/or head. Beaded borders were about the only kind traditionally permitted menstruating women, since their colors did not run after the mandatory post-menstrual washing of all clothing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beaded belt, accession number 9-12037a,b, described as Sari border; beaded in tones of grey, white, yellow and green on black velvet ribbon; floral motifs; attached to silk saris by Parsi women. the longer piece goes around the bottom hem, the shorter edges only those parts brought over the chest and shoulders and/or head. Beaded borders were about the only kind traditionally permitted menstruating women, since their colors did not run after the mandatory post-menstrual washing of all clothing.

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