Sash from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

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

A sash from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The sash is entirely patterned silk. The silk is primarily brown in color with a repeating pattern of tan squares with rounded corners and convex sides. Each of the tan squares are filled in with one or two bands of small, tan, horseshoe shapes, outlined in brown, that frame the red square centers. The squares with a single row feature four petal white flowers at the center. The squares with double rows feature a plain red square at the center. The sash is hemmed down one edge with black thread and the sash ends are angled.

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