Skirt

Museum number:
9-21482
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0428 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Tube skirt: Two pieces sewn together horizontally then joined vertally to form a tube. Plain weave; dark olive green with floral wrap ikat pattern in orange, blue, white, dark blue, green, and magenta; darker olive green central band with larger, similar patterns; 2.5cm border of weft ikat in blue, blue/green, white, pink, blue-red, yellow, and white on selvage edges. L=113cm x W=96.5cm.
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 113 centimeters and width 96.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Skirt, accession number 9-21482, described as Tube skirt: Two pieces sewn together horizontally then joined vertally to form a tube. Plain weave; dark olive green with floral wrap ikat pattern in orange, blue, white, dark blue, green, and magenta; darker olive green central band with larger, similar patterns; 2.5cm border of weft ikat in blue, blue/green, white, pink, blue-red, yellow, and white on selvage edges. L=113cm x W=96.5cm.

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