1867~, Vellore

1867~, Vellore

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4406(IS)/C
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The complete object would have been intended for use as a garment, clothing. Textiles, fragments of a woman's silk garment, Vellore, ca. 1867. Fragments of a sari, cotton and silk, black cotton field with spots in white ikat weave, the pallu end has a latticework design in yellow, deep bands of orange, red, black and gold-wrapped thread in geometric designs; borders of yellow, on one side striped with black and gold-wrapped thread, the other striped with red and black.