Tunic

Museum number:
9-12046
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2957
Description:
Tunic; child’s; mauve silk woven in a geometric pattern; border around base of navy blue silk embroidered with birds and flowers in white, pale yellow and red; round, open neck with ribbon ties in red and yellow; formerly worn by Parsi children of both sexes until the age of ten or so. The jhabla was usually worn on top of pantaloons or by itself in the case of infants.
Donor:
Rustom B. Jeejeebhoy
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Gujarati people and Parsi
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tunics
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tunic, accession number 9-12046, described as Tunic; child’s; mauve silk woven in a geometric pattern; border around base of navy blue silk embroidered with birds and flowers in white, pale yellow and red; round, open neck with ribbon ties in red and yellow; formerly worn by Parsi children of both sexes until the age of ten or so. The jhabla was usually worn on top of pantaloons or by itself in the case of infants.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tunic, accession number 9-12046, described as Tunic; child’s; mauve silk woven in a geometric pattern; border around base of navy blue silk embroidered with birds and flowers in white, pale yellow and red; round, open neck with ribbon ties in red and yellow; formerly worn by Parsi children of both sexes until the age of ten or so. The jhabla was usually worn on top of pantaloons or by itself in the case of infants.

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