shawl
date: label: date made
content: 1950?-2003
name: label: maker
content: Kanapathy Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Fuchsia shantung sari with emerald green borders mostly woven with gold threads; rectangular length of cloth has elaborate wide band along right end, of green, heavily woven in gold; gold diamond pattern punctuated by squares with stylized foliage patterns; bordered on all sides by gold paisley design, with gold striped edges at top and bottom; right end border is green woven with narrow gold stripes, with honeycombed fringe and gold tassels at intervals; top and bottom paisley borders, without gold stripes at edge, extend beyond wide band, the top about half way, the bottom until it meets left side border; border has fringed edge, vertical bands with threads only in one direction, separated by woven bands with gold stripes; top border for left half its length and bottom border near left end are woven in green and fuchsia; vertical line of three gold stripes marks where gold paisley bottom border begins.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sita Akka Paulickpulle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0020.001
label: accession number
content: 2004.0020
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0020.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Shawl
label: Object Type
content: Upper Body
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: length: 195 1/4 in; 495.935 cm
label: Measurements
content: width: 45 1/4 in; 114.935 cm