MVC-0214 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Shawl; woven cloth 150 x 81 cm; knotted fringe, 46 x 69 cm; unknotted fringe, 19cm; black ground with dark pink-red ikat patterns in vertical stripes-birds and flowers; wider band along each selvedge bordered by narrow stripes and small ikat crosses; long dark pink-red knotted fringe with pattern of 3 horizontal bands; two of word “recuerdo” with band of 5 flowers and zigzag.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Cuenca market, Cuenca, Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Ecuador; Cuenca market
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965-1967
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
“made by rural poor and sold to middle class, indigenous women; a sign of status” fide Kathleen Vitale.