Yarn
- Museum number:
- 9-21576
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021576
- Alternate number:
- MVC-0392 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4734
- Description:
- Bundle of yarn; seven white cotton skeins joined by loops of cotton at top and bottom tied for ikat dying.
- Donor:
- Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
- Collection place:
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India and Ceylon
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Rachel Gould Mossman
- Collection date:
- 1963
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile) and Yarn
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2006
- Context of use:
- one stage of processing yarn for weaving
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 84 centimeters
- Images:
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