- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Raincoat of rushes.
- Long description
- Description taken from Conservation Card by Emma Hook 18/02/1997 - Label reads; 'Rush work rain coat worn over shoulders, sometimes with one around loins.' also 'the city of Oaxaca is the first place where I have met them going south Thence they probably extend through GUATAMALA & C. AMERICA' O.H.H. copied off original parchment label? Rushes knotted together along a band and falling as a fringe of approx. length 1 m. (Emma Hook 18/02/1997) [LKG 26/02/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1898
- Date collected
- By 1898
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/10/1898
- Materials and processes
- Material Rush Fibre Plant, Process Tied, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 910 x 270 mm rolled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1898.30.1
- Research and responses
According to Sayer (p 124, Mexican Costume (London: British Museum Publications, 1985)), palm-leaf raincapes often consist of fibres tied together to make "tiles" which keep the wearer dry. Plastic sheeting is now more commonly used. [CW 3 10 1997]
1898.30.1
Raincoat of rushes.
1898.30.1
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