Skirt

Museum number:
9-15668
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015668
Alternate number:
874 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.09
Description:
Shirt, "ghagra". Silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Yellow ground, red, green and white designs. Phulkari flower motives. 3 yards by 32½ inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Katherine Hooker
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
INDIA
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 33 inches and length 9 feet
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-15668, described as Shirt, "ghagra". Silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Yellow ground, red, green and white designs. Phulkari flower motives. 3 yards by 32½ inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-15668, described as Shirt, "ghagra". Silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Yellow ground, red, green and white designs. Phulkari flower motives. 3 yards by 32½ inches.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-15668, described as Shirt, "ghagra". Silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Yellow ground, red, green and white designs. Phulkari flower motives. 3 yards by 32½ inches.

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