MVC-042 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Sari: Red border at each end with 5 rows of patterning in white dots depicting elephants, conch shells, flowers, leaves, and other objects; yellow dots in field; 17.5cm side borders with 1 row of yellow dots and white dotted flower and conch shell images; center is yellow with repeating pattern of three white dots; red squares with white centers, and large red circular motifs with white dots in center throught yellow field; warp threads are patterned in self-colored bands by use of 2 thicker threads every 1cm of warp; red border color bleeds into yellow. L=531cm x W117cm.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
India and Ceylon
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saris (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 531 centimeters and width 11 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: excellent; writing in black ink on 1 corner (name of maker?)