MVC-0378 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Object count:
1
Description:
Cloth; 103 cm x 244 cm l.; cotton; central field green with multicolored pattern of flowers in baskets within star shapes in blue with yellow leaf shapes alternating with flowers in baskets on green ground; 5.5 cm brown and white border on selvedge edges; one end border 43 cm with two areas of multicolored bird motifs on brown and white field separated by 1 cm red, white and gold stripes ending in green field with triangular green spikes alternating with brown spikes with floral pattern.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia?
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1960-1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman’s wrap-around skirt “Proebably purchased in Singapore in 1963” fide Kathleen Vitale