Blanket

Museum number:
10-3458
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Accession number:
Acc.4746
Description:
Woven bark fiber textile. Longitudinal bands ranging from 3.1–6.3 cm wide, of brown, ecru and sepia separated by narrow bands of ecru, woven with four narrow loom panels and sewn together lengthwise. 32 cm of the ends of each panel is woven in decorative chevrons. Five bands of each narrow panel are woven with chevrons and two outer bands are plain weave. Hand hemmed at each end.
Donor:
Cheryl Barton-Petrie
Collection place:
Ifugao Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Luzon Island
Verbatim coll. place:
East Asia, Philippines, South Luzon, Ifugao
Culture or time period:
Ifugao
Collector:
Roy Franklin Barton
Collection date:
1906-1924
Materials:
Bark (plant material) and Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
December 10, 2004
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 186 centimeters and width 134 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 10-3458, described as Woven bark fiber textile. Longitudinal bands ranging from 3.1–6.3 cm wide, of brown, ecru and sepia separated by narrow bands of ecru, woven with four narrow loom panels and sewn together lengthwise. 32 cm of the ends of each panel is woven in decorative chevrons. Five bands of each narrow panel are woven with chevrons and two outer bands are plain weave. Hand hemmed at each end.

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