Shawl
- Museum number:
- 16-20208
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160020208
- Alternate number:
- MVC-0213 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4734
- Description:
- Shawl; woven cloth 158 x 78 cm; knotting 62 x 69 cm; unknotted fringe 21 cm; pink ground; vertical stripes of black with red ikat separated by narrow blue stripes, wider stripe along each selvedge; ikat patterns of birds and flowers; added long fringe knotted in pattern of 3 horizontal bands; flowers and zigzags betwen birds
- Donor:
- Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
- Collection place:
- Cuenca market, Cuenca, Ecuador
- Verbatim coll. place:
- South America; Ecuador; Cuenca market
- Collector:
- Rachel Gould Mossman
- Collection date:
- 1965-1967
- Materials:
- Wool (textile) and Yarn
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2006
- Context of use:
- “made by rural poor and sold to middle class women; a sign of status” fide Kathleen Vitale.
- Department:
- South America (except Ancient Peru)
- Dimensions:
- length 158 centimeters and width 78 centimeters
- Comment:
- Conservation: seems to be unused
- Images:
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