Shirt

Museum number:
9-12041
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2953
Description:
Religious undershirt; woman’s; white; sleeveless with thin shoulder straps; upper part of dotted Swiss cotton, lower of net with broad lace trim around bottom; worn by all Parsis after their initiation as a symbol of Zoroastrianism. This specimen is an example of the sadra conforming to prevalent fashions.
Donor:
Dinoo Dubash
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Undershirts
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 9-12041, described as Religious undershirt; woman’s; white; sleeveless with thin shoulder straps; upper part of dotted Swiss cotton, lower of net with broad lace trim around bottom; worn by all Parsis after their initiation as a symbol of Zoroastrianism. This specimen is an example of the sadra conforming to prevalent fashions.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 9-12041, described as Religious undershirt; woman’s; white; sleeveless with thin shoulder straps; upper part of dotted Swiss cotton, lower of net with broad lace trim around bottom; worn by all Parsis after their initiation as a symbol of Zoroastrianism. This specimen is an example of the sadra conforming to prevalent fashions.

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