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36 x 26-3/4 in.
Accession NumberRussell and Becky Curtis Art Purchase Endowment Fund
Copyright(Andres Moraga, Berkeley, CA); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2002.
The Berber women in the mountainous areas of Tunisia wear decorated head shawls in layers. This shawl would have been worn over the hair and underneath a red head shawl, in order to protect the outer shawl from being soiled by the oils and henna used to coif hair.
The decoration on the bottom of the shawl is achieved by tie-dying, a form of resist-dyeing. In resist-dyeing, a pattern is achieved by either tying or stitching the areas intended to resist the dye penetration. When the cloth is dipped into dye, the patterns are created in the tied or stitched areas.
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