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Large, square, heather gray wool shawl. Two of the edges have selvages and the other two have short fringes of the same wool made by fraying the fabric and twisting the ends together. There is a large noticeable yellow stain in the center of the shawl.
shawls
wool (textile)
Shawl
"Old fason chall / gray" (Handwritten note in pencil on a sticker.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P929
Unknown
59 8/16 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1349
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