Shoulder wrap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2004
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Sarah Fee
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of African Art
notes: label: Notes
content: Off-white shoulder wrap (lamba fitafy) with off-white pattern. Base fabric is reeled silk (with a slight z-twist), woven in warp-predominant plain weave. A stylized floral pattern runs along one side, and small crosses are dotted across the other. Design elements are woven with discontinuous supplementary wefts of unspun silk. Fringe on both ends.
label: Notes
content: Reeled mulberry silk (bombyx mori) ("landikely" in Malagasy). Bought in Antanananarivo, price not recorded.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Antananarivo, Madagascar, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Merina
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2028638
label: USNM Number
content: E430766-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shawl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object, Including Fringe
content: ca. 224 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 51 cm