Towel

Museum number:
9-14995
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
981 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Mortuary towel. Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered, potentially tatted edgings. Colors: natural ground, varicolored designs. 47 x 17 in. Floral, potentially basket motifs.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Turkey
Verbatim coll. place:
TURKEY
Materials:
Metal, Metal (embroidery, cot, silk, metal), and Silk
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:
width 17 inches and length 47 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 9-14995, described as Mortuary towel. Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered, potentially tatted edgings. Colors: natural ground, varicolored designs. 47 x 17 in. Floral, potentially basket motifs.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 9-14995, described as Mortuary towel. Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered, potentially tatted edgings. Colors: natural ground, varicolored designs. 47 x 17 in. Floral, potentially basket motifs.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 9-14995, described as Mortuary towel. Linen, silk, metal wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered, potentially tatted edgings. Colors: natural ground, varicolored designs. 47 x 17 in. Floral, potentially basket motifs.

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