Purchased by María A Arús Caraballo and her mother, Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez, after a neighbor's purchase.

2025.1

Scarf

Female

MATERIALS: Lightweight printed dress fabric — silk or a synthetic (rayon/polyester) of silky hand (the "no crinkle" on the sibling's label hints at a synthetic). Self-fabric/thread fringe. TECHNIQUES: Screen ("hand") printing on woven fabric; ends finished with a knotted/macramé heading and applied or self-fringe.

1970s

MAKER: Per the label seen on the matching plaid scarf, a Japanese maker ("100% HAND PRINT / NO CRINKLE / MADE IN JAPAN"). No label is visible on this scarf; maker attributed by close match to its labelled sibling. DATE / PERIOD: Not dated; mid-to-late 20th century (estimated) for a Japanese hand-printed fashion scarf of this type. Undetermined more precisely. ORIGIN: Japan (manufacture), attributed via the matching labelled scarf ("Made in Japan"). Acquisition: 1970s Cuba per María A. Arús Caraballo.

177.9 cm

1

Good

This is one of three fringed printed scarves recorded together. It shares its plaid print design and fringe with the red/maroon plaid scarf (its colorway sibling) and is, with it, of Japanese manufacture per that scarf's "Made in Japan / hand print" label; the deep-red chain-print scarf is a different design but part of the same set. Japanese export scarves of this kind were widely produced and sold internationally in the mid-to-late twentieth century; "hand print" denotes hand screen-printing.