Black Skirt

Object/Artifact

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Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Name/Title

Black Skirt

Description

Artifact LC-85-2-95 is a floor length black cotton skirt. It has several strips of ruffles along the front of the skirt and pleats along the bottom hem. There are two splits down either side seam, perhaps where the ties of the skirt once were.

Use

This would have been worn as clothing.

Collection

General Butler 1985 Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1870

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Skirt, Walking

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Skirt

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Main Garments

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Archaeological Project Number

Other Number

LC-85-2-95

Material

Cotton

Relationships

Related Events

Event

Sinking of the General Butler