MVC-0436 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Tube skirt; 2 pieces sewn together horizontally then joined vertically to form a tube; large warp red "checks" are bordered by vertical yellow stripes and double horizontal dark blue stripes; interspersed are narrow 1cm stripes of blue; brown and yellow weft; warp dominant cloth appears as large as large red squares with 4 rectangles of alternately yellow and white supplemental weft at center of each square. 23cm x 7cm area in center panel made up of red rectangles with white, yellow, green, and blue supplemental weft geometric motifs in rectangles and spool-like shapes. L=130.5cm x W=92cm
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:
Skirts (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 130.5 centimeters and width 92 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: .5cm x 1cm home in 6th blue stripe from edge; 2 smaller holes in 2nd blue stripe from edge