Textile
- Museum number:
- 5-16776
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016776
- Alternate number:
- 516756
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- woven, fringed Yoruba textile; white with navy weft overlay patterned bands. coarse weave. cotton yarn appears to be hand spun. Conservation: Dirty
- 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
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Textile samples
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Household or clothing
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 151 centimeters, fringe— length 15 centimeters, and width 30 centimeters
- Images:
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