Textile

Museum number:
5-16405
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1970 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Object count:
1
Description:
woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1937-1938
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
household
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 219 centimeters, fringe— length 16 centimeters, fringe— length 13 centimeters, and width 204 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-7
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16405, described as woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16405, described as woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16405, described as woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.

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