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Black cashmere shawl. The rectangular shaped shawl has fringe at both ends and a small band of ten ribs along the edges. The shawl was found in the trunk, wrapped in 1907 newspaper labeled "black cashmere shawl".
shawls
cashmere (wool)
Shawl
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P897
Unknown
64 3/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1317
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