Textile
ca. 1873 (made)
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| Place of origin |
White silk or fine cotton textile, discoloured with patches of dye.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Cotton or silk, woven |
| Brief description | Textile, silk or fine cotton, from Shache (Yarkand), China, ca. 1873 |
| Physical description | White silk or fine cotton textile, discoloured with patches of dye. |
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| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. Part of an ethnological collection acquired by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth from Yarkand (Shache in Chinese) in 1873-4. |
| Historical context | Possibly intended for use as clothing. |
| Other number | 12,987 - India Museum Slip Book |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 2003(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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