Paisley shawl; varicolored floral and curvilinear designs on orange and red; black center; old mends, moth holes; fringe missing; length is 1.78 meters, width is 1.74 meters. Machine-woven wool.
Donor:
C. Bruce Lee
Collection place:
Scotland
Verbatim coll. place:
British Isles; Scotland, Paisley attributed
Culture or time period:
Scottish
Collector:
C. Bruce Lee
Collection date:
pre-1877
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Comment:
This particular example was used by donor's ancestors, P. L. Cook, to bundle up her children when they went to school in Buffalo, New York.