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Dress chiefly of heavy white linen fabric with a textured weave with underarm gussets of calico. Collar of machine woven cloth printed with a multi-coloured floral pattern on a green ground, trimmed with lace and a row of tubular beads and lined with cream fabric. The central panel of the back is of plain weave, embroidered in the lower part with two columns of three squares chiefly in red with yellowgreen blue and pink detailing. Above each column a small lozenge embroidered in green and blue.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk
