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Unknown Maker, Indian

Sari/Odhani

Maker

Culture

Indian, Gujarati

Title

Sari/Odhani

Year

late 1800s-early 1900s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silk

Geography

Place Made: Kutch; Place Made: Saurashtra

Dimensions

Length: 408.9 cm (161 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.302

Type

Costume

Exhibition History

Kutch Quilts from South Asia

Nov 19, 2010 – Apr 17, 2011

Label copy

This large silk veil is known as an odhani (a wrap). It owes its rich, deep color to indigo, used in the resist-dye process. Block-printed onto the liquid silk surface of the veil, the iconography of dancing figures, elephants, and peacocks-all symbolic of fertility-suggests this was worn for a wedding ceremony.

The Splendid Sari

Feb 25, 2005 – May 29, 2005

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Indian

Sari/Odhani, late 1800s-early 1900s

Silk, metallic-wrapped thread; satin weave, block-printed resist

Length: 408.9 cm (161 inches)

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich 55.302

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