MVC-0415 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl: Small black double woven center with red paisley half circle; weft design pattern of red, yellow, brown, and green paisleys; weft colors carried from selvage to selvage with very narrow selvage beyond weft turn around area; black grosgrain ribbon flower sewn on; black grosgrain ribbon on all edges, extending from selvages or on back only at warp ends; ribbon is 3.5cm wide, 1cm wide at 1 warp end, bow of grosgrain sewn to at selvage near one warp end; solid color ground with niche shape floral designs at warp end borders. L=307cm x W=164cm.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1963
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 164 centimeters and length 307 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: 3cm x10.5cm hole with missing warps; wefts intact; frayed selvages and warp ends, holes in black center field; dark spot on