Textile

Museum number:
9-21459
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0447 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Sari: Royal blue silk sari with gold and red; overall motif of small flowers in a vase; borders are gold with red leaf motif; front panel motif is a gold temple wall with flute players in niches; ends are in macrame. 117 cm w. x528 cm l.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Verbatim coll. place:
India or Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Sinhalese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Gold (metal) and Silk
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:
length 528 centimeters and width 117 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: two very small spots, white.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21459, described as Sari: Royal blue silk sari with gold and red; overall motif of small flowers in a vase; borders are gold with red leaf motif; front panel motif is a gold temple wall with flute players in niches; ends are in macrame. 117 cm w. x528 cm l.

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