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Object Name
Shawl
Object Number
ca1920-10-1
Description
White silk shawl; embroidered floral design in white silk thread around edge of shawl - design more intricate in two corners (diagonally opposite); border of knotted design with fringe at end in silk thread
Comment
Loaned by donors in memory of their relative Mrs. William Williams Mathewson (Lucy Madeleine Stickney) who died in 1918. It is believed that the shawl was once owned by a grandmother of Mrs. Mathewson
Category
Personal Artifacts
Date Made
ca. 1830-1860
Dimensions
60" long x 60" wide 10" length of fringe 3 1/2" length of knotted design
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