Jabot owned by Harriet Tubman

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A women’s jabot made of machine-woven off-white linen or cotton with machine-made bobbin lace bottom border and center panel insert. The lace motif is a curling stylized leafy vine. The fabric is pleated at the top and sewn to a plain woven rectangular panel of the fabric.

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