Shawl
- Museum number:
- 5-16816
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016816
- Alternate number:
- 4 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4729
- Description:
- woman's sheer cotton shawl. 4.5cm wide woven bands of blue, purple, orange stripes alternating with 25cm wide segments of ecru. sewn thread fringes at each end.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Shack
- Collection place:
- Ethiopia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- East Africa, Ethiopia, Shoa Province, Gurage
- Culture or time period:
- Gurage
- Collector:
- Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- May 22, 2002
- Context of use:
- clothing
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 252 centimeters and width 72.5 centimeters
- Images:
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