Pleated Section of a Skirt

Object/Artifact

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Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Name/Title

Pleated Section of a Skirt

Description

Artifact LC-85-2-95b is a section of pleated black cotton fabric from a walking skirt. There are several significant tears in the fabric as well as loose thread, orange discoloration, and color fading.

Use

This would have been worn as a garment.

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-85-2-95b

Material

Cotton

Relationships

Related Events

Event

Sinking of the General Butler