Pants

Museum number:
9-12057
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012057
Accession number:
Acc.2958
Description:
Pantaloons: women's; white silk and cotton mixture; knee-length; drawstring around waist of white cotton tape; previous owner's initials, D.N., embroidered in red; Length 69 cm, Width 72 cm. Worn by Parsi women around the house or under a sari. Now in use largely by very old or very traditional women.
Donor:
Mr. Noshir Erani
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pantaloons
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pants, accession number 9-12057, described as Pantaloons: women's; white silk and cotton mixture; knee-length; drawstring around waist of white cotton tape; previous owner's initials, D.N., embroidered in red; Length 69 cm, Width 72 cm. Worn by Parsi women around the house or under a sari. Now in use largely by very old or very traditional women.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pants, accession number 9-12057, described as Pantaloons: women's; white silk and cotton mixture; knee-length; drawstring around waist of white cotton tape; previous owner's initials, D.N., embroidered in red; Length 69 cm, Width 72 cm. Worn by Parsi women around the house or under a sari. Now in use largely by very old or very traditional women.

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