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Object Number
995-29-10/74015
Display Title
Fringed rain sash in white cotton plain-weave
Descriptions
Object Description
White cotton sash with fringe, from 1950s-1970s. Body of sash is a warp-faced plain weave 167 cm long, 12 cm wide, and .2 cm deep. Warp and weft are natural-colored commercial cotton cord, 4-ply z-spun elements s-twisted together. Warp has 12 threads to the cm, weft 2.5 to the cm. The selvages recieve no finishing treatment, but are very even. At the ends of the woven portion, the warp is split into 3 clusters. These are subdivided into 4 elements or varing numbers of basic cord strands, which are braided. The resulting braid is approx. 2 cm wide and 4 cm long, and the braiding terminates inside 3 rings, made of the same cord wrapped over a cornhusk braided ring. The rings are each 3.5 cm in diameter and 1.5 cm high. The warp cords continue through the 3 rings, int[see Object Description text entry for extended description]
Inventory Description
Sash, woven natural cotton, long twisted and tied fringe withballs at top
Classification
- Sash
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1950s-1970s
Culture
- Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms
Hopi mesas
Materials
Cotton, Corn husk
Dimensions
Overall: 156 x 12 x 3 cm (61 7/16 x 4 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/74015
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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