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Odhani or Bandhani (Veil worn over Head)

Unknown artist, early 1900s

1.45 m × 1.12 m

Almost as tall as you are. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 1.12 m
Width: 1.45 m
Medium: silk, tie-dyed (but not ironed flat) and embroidered with polychrome silk and flat strips of silver plaited with silk thread
Kind: Textile
Made in: Western India, Gujarat, Kachchh
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Overall: 144.8 x 111.8 cm (57 x 44 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 1.12 m × 1.45 m. Hung the other way up, because the photograph of it is.
Credit: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 1.45 m × 1.12 m. Almost as tall as you are. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made early 1900s. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund.
How was it made?: Silk, tie-dyed (but not ironed flat) and embroidered with polychrome silk and flat strips of silver plaited with silk thread, made in Western India, Gujarat, Kachchh, Western India, Gujarat, Kachchh.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.