Cord

Museum number:
9-22492
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Accession number:
Acc.2697
Description:
pyjama cord; blue with orange thread double stitching that runs down length of cord (almost like stripes). along length of cord on one edge is black, 0.6cm thick. at each end of cord is 10.5cm of "tassle" that consists of threads wrapped together with white thread in 0.8cm sections punctuated with the blue threads exposed; 5 sections of exposed, bundled, blue threads ending with 4cm of tassle
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Uttar Pradesh, India
Verbatim coll. place:
Inda; Uttar Pradesh; Rampur District
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
before November 1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cords
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 2.4 centimeters and length 148 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cord, accession number 9-22492, described as pyjama cord; blue with orange thread double stitching that runs down length of cord (almost like stripes). along length of cord on one edge is black, 0.6cm thick. at each end of cord is 10.5cm of "tassle" that consists of threads wrapped together with white thread in 0.8cm sections punctuated with the blue threads exposed; 5 sections of exposed, bundled, blue threads ending with 4cm of tassle

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