Dress fragment

Museum number:
3-11052c
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Accession number:
Acc.897
Description:
Part of dress with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. 1.14 M x 38 cm. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored and embroidered in Mexico.
Donor:
Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, unspecified
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Ynes Mexia
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments) and Fragments (object portions)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 40 centimeters and length 111 centimeters
Comment:
Special needs: lightweight; conservation
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dress fragment, accession number 3-11052c, described as Part of dress with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. 1.14 M x 38 cm. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored and embroidered in Mexico.

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