Mortuary towel

Museum number:
9-15010
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
992 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Mortuary towel. Cotton, silk, flat metal strips. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Variation of "mosque and cyprus" motives. 53 inches by 21 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Turkey
Verbatim coll. place:
TURKEY
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Silk, and Silk (embroidery, cotton, silk, mtl)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Mortuary towels
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 53 inches and width 21 inches
Loans:
S1982-1983 #21: Santa Barbara Museum of Art (November 24, 1982–April 14, 1983)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mortuary towel, accession number 9-15010, described as Mortuary towel. Cotton, silk, flat metal strips. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Variation of "mosque and cyprus" motives. 53 inches by 21 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortuary towel, accession number 9-15010, described as Mortuary towel. Cotton, silk, flat metal strips. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Variation of "mosque and cyprus" motives. 53 inches by 21 inches.

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