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Wedding Sash or Girdle

Arts of the Americas

MEDIUM Cotton, corn husk?
DATES late 19th–early 20th century
DIMENSIONS 10 × 2 3/4 × 102 in. (25.4 × 7 × 259.1 cm)  (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER 05.588.7163
CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Finely woven white cotton sash with long fringes topped by small fiber balls at each end.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Hopi-Tewa Pueblo. Wedding Sash or Girdle, late 19th–early 20th century. Cotton, corn husk?, 10 × 2 3/4 × 102 in. (25.4 × 7 × 259.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund, 05.588.7163. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.05.588.7163_view01.jpg)
IMAGE overall, CUR.05.588.7163_view01.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2022
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Hopi-Tewa Pueblo. <em>Wedding Sash or Girdle</em>, late 19th–early 20th century. Cotton, corn husk?, 10 × 2 3/4 × 102 in. (25.4 × 7 × 259.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund, 05.588.7163. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.05.588.7163_view01.jpg)