Shawl

Museum number:
9-21512
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090021512
Alternate number:
MVC-0463 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl; even-sided twill with interlocking wefts; ecru background with blue, rust, green, purple, and magenta; rows of paisleys with pendant tips, facing right in 1 row, left in next, separated by 2 irregular lozenge-forms; narrow undulating ribbon with flower and stem motifs borders central field, edged by green weft selvages & egg & dart row of green loops and rust colored dots separates side borders from central field; 2.0 cm fringe at top and 7.0 cm fringe at bottom;
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Verbatim coll. place:
India; Kashmir
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1964
Materials:
Fleece
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's garment
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 114 centimeters and length 210 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: good
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 9-21512, described as Shawl; even-sided twill with interlocking wefts; ecru background with blue, rust, green, purple, and magenta; rows of paisleys with pendant tips, facing right in 1 row, left in next, separated by 2 irregular lozenge-forms; narrow undulating ribbon with flower and stem motifs borders central field, edged by green weft selvages & egg & dart row of green loops and rust colored dots separates side borders from central field; 2.0 cm fringe at top and 7.0 cm fringe at bottom;

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