Obi

Museum number:
9-15655
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090015655
Alternate number:
926 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Obi, lined. Silk, cotton lining. Twill weave, brocaded, twill lining. Light brown ground, varicolored designs, light brown lining. Foliage motives. 25 inches by 4½ yards.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
JAPAN
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Obis (accessories) and Obis (sashes)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 25 inches and length 4.5 yards
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Obi, accession number 9-15655, described as Obi, lined. Silk, cotton lining. Twill weave, brocaded, twill lining. Light brown ground, varicolored designs, light brown lining. Foliage motives. 25 inches by 4½ yards.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Obi, accession number 9-15655, described as Obi, lined. Silk, cotton lining. Twill weave, brocaded, twill lining. Light brown ground, varicolored designs, light brown lining. Foliage motives. 25 inches by 4½ yards.

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