Short, unlined cape composed of two side panels of sheer black basket-woven silk crepe with insert of assuit fabric panel or partial shawl (hexagonal cotton net ornamented with metal strips (lama)) in the center back. The design of the assuit panel is of strictly geometric patterns, primarily of large squares within squares (or diamonds within diamonds) down the center and smaller geometric designs in the field and around the edges. The 34" wide panel has been inserted with extremely small hand stitches. The silk side panels and the netting with metal strips have been gathered at the top with several rows of stitches and sewn to a small inner collar of black silk satin. Two long streamers (ties) composed of a double layer of the sheer black crepe are sewn by hand to each side of the collar. The entire cape, including the collar but not the ties is edged with a narrow (approx. 1/4") piping of metallic fabric, originally probably gold, but now of varying color, sewn on by hand with whip stitches. The cape has a woven label from the atelier of Jessie Franklin Turner of New York. (See inscriptions)