Kimono

Museum number:
9-21596
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0558 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Woman’s kimono; salmon pink and white ground; shibori tie-died dots form large floral patterned areas; salmon, gray-blue, dark green and white, hand painted flowers on silk with woven swastika pattern form hem border, sleeve decoration and medallion on one shoulder.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; purchased in Eugene, OR
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1994
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kimonos
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
Womans garment for plum blossom festival
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 180 centimeters and width 132 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Kimono, accession number 9-21596, described as Woman’s kimono; salmon pink and white ground; shibori tie-died dots form large floral patterned areas; salmon, gray-blue, dark green and white, hand painted flowers on silk with woven swastika pattern form hem border, sleeve decoration and medallion on one shoulder.

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