Cashmere shawl; wool, twill weave; embroidered; white ground; varicolored pine cone, floral designs. 57 inches x 135 inches including fringes. May be partially brocaded.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Verbatim coll. place:
Kashmir; India
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1980-1981 #42: University of California, Davis/Victoria Rivers (January 9, 1981–March 13, 1981), S1981-1982 #11: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (September 24, 1981–December 1, 1981), S1982-1983 #14: University of California, Davis/Victoria Rivers (October 1, 1982–December 6, 1982), S1983-1984 #36: Department of Environmental Design (UC Davis)/Victoria Rivers (January 13, 1983–March 5, 1984), and S1984-1985 #14: University of California, Davis (October 2, 1984–October 9, 1984)