a) unfinished cloth, white cotton, plain weave w/ imprint; balls and strips tied w/ thread; 44.5 x 34.3 cm. b) finished pattern of (a); indigo-dyed cotton; stripes setting off groups of small circles; 83 x 85 cm.
Donor:
Ruth Radmore
Collection place:
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Abeokuta; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Ruth Radmore
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
finished tie-dyed cloths paired with half-finished knotted pieces. the finished section shows the pattern produced by the tied piece.
S1968-1969 #97: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (April 11, 1969–May 8, 1969), S1971-1972 #138: University of California, Los Angeles (May 20, 1972–May 26, 1972), S1971-1972 #139: Watts Towers Art Center (May 26, 1972–September 18, 1972), and S1981-1982 #25: de Saisset Museum (Santa Clara Univ.) (December 11, 1981–April 1, 1982)