MVC-0390 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Textile stamp; corner block made up of 4 squares, two with bare breasted women and two with elephants as the central motif. Dotted bands and bordering floral bands separate each block and border the design on 2 sides.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Sinhalese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
textile manufacture
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters, height 2.5 centimeters, and width 15.5 centimeters