Scarf

Museum number:

9-21228

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Alternate number:

4 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.4684

Description:

Printed silk scarf from Shemaka Azerbaijan: 146 cm. x 150 cm. Borders ~11 cm. solid black, 4 yellow medallions, paisley forms and arcs (?), with floral sprays, hearts, crescents, stars and peacocks. Some areas off-register over-printed with red. Unhemmed. Very fine (thin) fabric, handwoven appearance.

Donor:

Mary C. Stoddard

Collection place:

Azerbaijan Printing shop, Shemaka, Azerbaijan

Verbatim coll. place:

Shemaka, Azerbaijan printing shop

Collector:

Mary C. Stoddard

Collection date:

1989

Materials:

Silk

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Scarves (costume accessories)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

December 17, 1996

Context of use:

Printed silk tribal scarf from a printing shop outside of Shemaka, Azerbaijan. The Textile Museum travelers were shown how the silk was prepared and the dyes applied. At the end of our tour we were each given a scarf. This was in 1989, at the beginning of the change in Soviet society. The government was still paying salaries. These scarves were never in shops. Each tribal group of people had a particular scarf. When I was there, the women wore it folded into a long band and wrapped around a bun worn at the back of their heads. They were striking against the thick, sleek, dark hair. The article from “Ghereh” published in August 1996 shows many women wearing the scarves Russian style, over their shoulders or tied on their heads, covering the top. (this informationFide:Mary Stoddard, from description)

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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