Skirt

Museum number:
9-21483
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Alternate number:
MVC-0429 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Tube skirt: Two panels hand stitched together then joined vertically to form a tube; woven; orange yellow warp with thin stripe of dark green on each selvage and 4 thin stripes of light blue; dark green, brown, yellow, and red weft ikat in floral motifs; cloth woven in greenish weft with exception of 25cm center oanel woven in brown weft ikat; overall iridescent shading of green orange and burgundy yellow. L=117cm x W=95cm.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 117 centimeters and width 95 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: good
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Skirt, accession number 9-21483, described as Tube skirt: Two panels hand stitched together then joined vertically to form a tube; woven; orange yellow warp with thin stripe of dark green on each selvage and 4 thin stripes of light blue; dark green, brown, yellow, and red weft ikat in floral motifs; cloth woven in greenish weft with exception of 25cm center oanel woven in brown weft ikat; overall iridescent shading of green orange and burgundy yellow. L=117cm x W=95cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Skirt, accession number 9-21483, described as Tube skirt: Two panels hand stitched together then joined vertically to form a tube; woven; orange yellow warp with thin stripe of dark green on each selvage and 4 thin stripes of light blue; dark green, brown, yellow, and red weft ikat in floral motifs; cloth woven in greenish weft with exception of 25cm center oanel woven in brown weft ikat; overall iridescent shading of green orange and burgundy yellow. L=117cm x W=95cm.

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