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1947.1.5

Embroidered skirt.

1947.1.5

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Collection type
Object
Description
Embroidered skirt.
Cultural groups
Armenian
Person
Field collector Miss G.F. Newnham
PRM source Miss G.F. Newnham
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1918
Date collected
Before 1918
Acquisition information
Donated: 1947
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched, Process Dyed
Object numbers
Accession number: 1947.1.5
Research and responses

Bithynia: ancient district in northwestern Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. Caucasus: Russian KAVKAZ, mountain system and region lying between the Black and Azov seas (west) and the Caspian Sea (east) and occupied by Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica] [MR 22/8/2000]

Search terms: Clothing Textile, Marriage, Ritual and Ceremonial, Religion, Skirt, Ceremonial Object, Amulet