Girl's jacket of cotton - Specimen details

Girl's jacket of cotton - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 73208

Plant Name 31.01 MALVACEAE Gossypium sp Entry Book Number 103.1906
Artefact Name Girl's jacket of cotton Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Girl's jacket of cotton Geography Description Bihar, Asia_Tropical, Indian_Subcontinent, India
Uses Girl's jacket of cottonUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Moorat Mrs MAC Donor No
Donor Date 26/09/1906 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Girls jacket made of cotton. Grown, spun and woven in Behar, and worked by native girls of the Durbhunga District, Behar. Dyed with native dyes - indigo, turmeric etc. Note from Mrs MAC Moorat, Late Inspectress of Girls Schools, Bengal. - 'spun woven a, nd worked by uneducated girls' Lists 4 items. 1. Pillow slip. 2. Boys cap. 3. Girls jacket. 4. Baskets - all worked by poor village school girls in Behar, Bengal.

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