Middle East Anthropology Box 3

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Catalog # Name Description
1 1968.9.9.20 Pants Embroidered pants. Woman's costume. Top part of pants is cotton material - red with blue, green and white little flowers. Bottom part of pants is purple silk with embroidered flowers of green, blue and white. Pants have a 4" slit on each side at the bottom of each leg. Bordering the bottom and the slits is trim in dark purple, green, orange, black and gold.
2 1968.9.9.4 Banner Black; embroidered design in green, white, blue, purple, yellow, gold, and pink. Green fringe around the two longer edges. Fringe 3" long. shaped like a right triangle. Color: BK,ML
3 1993.37.14 Headband Headband, or "Agal". 5 segments, each 3" long, of four tightly wrapped cords; three of the 5 segments incorporate four wrapped cords. 2 of the 5, 3" segments have 2 wrapped cords. Between each two segments of wrapped cords is looser, light blue embrodery thread. Color: BL
4 1999.5.32.1 Jacket Jacket is short bolero style. It has no buttons or fasteners on it. It is bright green velvet with gold piping along the front edges, including the sleeves. The inside has a woven cotton lining, sewn crudely. The background is dark blue with tiny red flowers and grey leaves. Color: GR,GD,BL,GY,RD
5 1999.5.32.3 Petticoat Fabric is white with light and dark purple flowers all over it. There is a black ruffle all around the bottom. Red piping is sewn directly above the black ruffle. b. Drawstring, hand woven cotton, frayed at both ends. Striped with peach, white, green and purple. Color: WH,PR,RD,BK
6 1999.5.32.5 Petticoat Two parts. a. Petticoat. Puckered cotton has blue background with abstract circular and cylindrical flowers with red, green, yellow, blue, white and black. The bottom has black piping. b. Drawstring. Hand-woven cotton, frayed at both ends. Striped with peach, white, green and purple. Color: BL,RD,GR,YL,WH,
7 2004.26.4 Fabric Brocade. Background red with paisley-type design repeated on it. Outline of paisley shape is yellow, green, red and black. In the center of each are four small white flowers. Four paisley shapes across width, ten down length. Metallic luster. Reference: Shahandeh, Bahman. "Persian Brocades-a dying Industry." Oct. 28, 1964. Color: ML
8 2010.17.100 Tunic long floor length hooded robe looking garment with wider sleeves, pullover, vertical stripes of gray and black with white trim, black gray white navy Color: GY
9 2010.17.102 Tunic secured with 2 pieces of rope like fabric, pockets, open entire length of garment in front, structured or stream lined around the object with round or circle cut neck, deep pockets and the front middle section is secured by a silken cord, large hoop 3/4 sleeves, bottom parts of tunic are open in places--part of style Color: OR, WH
10 2010.17.13 Fabric woven cream or off white colored material with twilled ends, Baraccan textiles are made from woven cotton and camel's hair-very fine and relatively soft Color: WH
11 2010.17.21 Rug small rug with buildings (Mosque?) on the rug, flower motif border and at the bottom underneath pillars, pillars at the bottom, possibly representative of the inside of a mosque, lightweight, decorative Color: PR, OR,WH,YL
12 2010.17.89 Caftan long robe looking clothing item with collared sleeves and a collar at the neck, blue with white vertical stripes, exported good, 5 buttons-2 on the sleeves and the rest on front piece Color: BL, WH
13 2010.17.91 Pants Black, elastic waist band and around ankles, white diamonds embroidered down sides, pockets Color: BK, WH
14 2010.17.92 Scarf large 4 X 4ft rug with zigzag pattern and 'buffalo' plaid pattern with tuffs of cotton at the ends which are both for decoration andto keep sweat from face, mens Color: RD, WH