Textile

Museum number:
9-21486
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Alternate number:
MVC-0432 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Sari; lightweight plain weave; discontinuous supplemental weft design motifs; warp and weft stripes; supplemental warp designs; light aqua with dark aqua upper and lowe warp edges and end panel; bright red/pink and white decorative floral motifs on dark aqua front panel devided by red/pink double lines; main motifs have 5 white diamonds in center L=409cm x W-100cm
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India or Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 100 centimeters and length 409 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21486, described as Sari; lightweight plain weave; discontinuous supplemental weft design motifs; warp and weft stripes; supplemental warp designs; light aqua with dark aqua upper and lowe warp edges and end panel; bright red/pink and white decorative floral motifs on dark aqua front panel devided by red/pink double lines; main motifs have 5 white diamonds in center L=409cm x W-100cm

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