Textile fragment
- Museum number:
- 5-11124
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050011124
- Accession number:
- Acc.2818
- Description:
- 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:
- width 9.5 centimeters and length 23.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #73: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (April 21, 1977–April 25, 1977)
- Images:
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