Textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): cotton; alternating black and light blue threads; central stripe light blue flanked by yellow, deep red, and black stripes on a deep blue ground.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria, Oyo, Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
February-April 1951
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
January 24, 1972
Context of use:
Short section of cloth cut from a long length of fabric woven and ready for market. Made by professional male weaver on "horizontal narrow band treadle loom." Finished strips, are then cut and sewn into garments by tailor. Samples collected in marketplace, weavers' compounds, and some with the help of a Yoruba master weaver. A duplicate set was made for the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 23.5 centimeters and width 9.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1976-1977 #73: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (April 21, 1977–April 25, 1977)