Skirt
- Museum number:
- 9-21474
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021474
- Alternate number:
- MVC-0420 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4734
- Description:
- Tube skirt: Two pieces seamed together horizontally and vertically; plain weave; red-brown and brown striped background with blue, black, and white outlined repeating squares; warp ikat yellow, blue, green, and white chevrons; 26cm wide blue front panel with ikat weft dyed white stripes. L=132cm x W=94cm.
- Donor:
- Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
- Collection place:
- India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India and Ceylon
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Rachel Gould Mossman
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Skirts (garments)
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2006
- Context of use:
- woman's clothing
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 132 centimeters and width 94 centimeters
- Comment:
- Conservation: good
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