Sari

Museum number:
9-15682
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Alternate number:
1010 (original number) and 1185 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Gold ground with gold, brown, blue and green floral motifs; lining has grey ground with varicolored geometric motifs.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saris (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 81.28 centimeters and length 254.001 centimeters
Comment:
Satin weave, embroidery, printing. Badly stained, few holes, some embroidery pulled out.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-15682, described as Gold ground with gold, brown, blue and green floral motifs; lining has grey ground with varicolored geometric motifs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-15682, described as Gold ground with gold, brown, blue and green floral motifs; lining has grey ground with varicolored geometric motifs.

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