Textile fragment

Museum number:
5-11341
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-341
Accession number:
Acc.2818
Description:
textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): small black and white checks with openwork and floats.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Oyo
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 10.9 centimeters and length 101.9 centimeters
Loans:
S1971-1972 #127: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (April 18, 1972–May 25, 1972) and S1976-1977 #73: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (April 21, 1977–April 25, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 5-11341, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): small black and white checks with openwork and floats.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 5-11341, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): small black and white checks with openwork and floats.

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