Skirt

Museum number:

3-11052b

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Accession number:

Acc.897

Object count:

1

Description:

Dress skirt; brown silk with brown silk floral brocade; varicolored silk floral embroidery. Probably French 19th century fabric and tailored and embroidered in Mexico.

Donor:

Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)

Collection place:

Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Mexico, unspecified

Culture or time period:

Mexican

Collector:

Ynes Mexia

Collection date:

unknown

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Skirts (garments)

Function:

2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes

Accession date:

1946

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

width 167 centimeters and length 117 centimeters

Comment:

Special needs: lightweight; conservation

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