Shawl

Museum number:
16-20288
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
MVC-0295 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Object count:
1
Description:
Textile; 70x 67.5 cm, fringe 14-16 cm on all sides; ground is warp faced alternating white and red, blue and green; central pattern is woman with basket on her head with matching abstract features on either side of woman; bands with de/iamond shapes at top and bottom with smaller bands of parallelograms; length wise border is two multicolored stripes. at top and bottom have warp fringe, selvedge fringe sewn on.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Quito, Ecuador
Verbatim coll. place:
South America; Ecuador Quito; Olga Fisch’s studio
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1965-1967
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
tourist item
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Dimensions:
length 70 centimeters and width 67.5 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: as purchased
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 16-20288, described as Textile; 70x 67.5 cm, fringe 14-16 cm on all sides; ground is warp faced alternating white and red, blue and green; central pattern is woman with basket on her head with matching abstract features on either side of woman; bands with de/iamond shapes at top and bottom with smaller bands of parallelograms; length wise border is two multicolored stripes. at top and bottom have warp fringe, selvedge fringe sewn on.

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