Dress

Museum number:
5-16839
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
5 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4729
Object count:
1
Description:
woman's dress, cotton with hand embroidered bands around neck and down center front to 27.0cm from hem where a decorative element composed of diamonds, triangles, checkered areas, teardrops and tendrils. armholes are finished with the same embroidered bands. colors are black, red, green, blue, gold, wine, lavender, yellow. counterpoise embroidered on back is similar in diamond and drop pattern as at lower front.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Gurage
Culture or time period:
Gurage
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Context of use:
clothing; given as a gift to the Shack's when they returned to Ethiopia in ca. 1973.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 136 centimeters and width 82 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 5-16839, described as woman's dress, cotton with hand embroidered bands around neck and down center front to 27.0cm from hem where a decorative element composed of diamonds, triangles, checkered areas, teardrops and tendrils. armholes are finished with the same embroidered bands. colors are black, red, green, blue, gold, wine, lavender, yellow. counterpoise embroidered on back is similar in diamond and drop pattern as at lower front.

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