Dress

Museum number:
5-1494
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1274
Description:
Dress, white gauze-like material, not tailored. 52” wide/132.08 cm. and 46”/116.84 cm. Woven band of green and gold around bottom above reef fringes. Machine-embroidered around neck and down front in bright colors. Remarks: “Conventional embroidery patterns”.
Donor:
Cyrus Townsend Brady Jr.
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1959
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 5-1494, described as Dress, white gauze-like material, not tailored. 52” wide/132.08 cm. and 46”/116.84 cm. Woven band of green and gold around bottom above reef fringes. Machine-embroidered around neck and down front in bright colors. Remarks: “Conventional embroidery patterns”.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 5-1494, described as Dress, white gauze-like material, not tailored. 52” wide/132.08 cm. and 46”/116.84 cm. Woven band of green and gold around bottom above reef fringes. Machine-embroidered around neck and down front in bright colors. Remarks: “Conventional embroidery patterns”.

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