Sari

Museum number:
9-12955
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012955
Accession number:
Acc.2910
Description:
Sari; cotton, red ground with yellow checks, fancy dyed weft producing white dots, ornamental border woven in checks, zig-zag diamond patterns; materials/techniques: cotton, hand-woven, weft ikat
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saris (garments)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 7, 1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-12955, described as Sari; cotton, red ground with yellow checks, fancy dyed weft producing white dots, ornamental border woven in checks, zig-zag diamond patterns; materials/techniques: cotton, hand-woven, weft ikat
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sari, accession number 9-12955, described as Sari; cotton, red ground with yellow checks, fancy dyed weft producing white dots, ornamental border woven in checks, zig-zag diamond patterns; materials/techniques: cotton, hand-woven, weft ikat

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