Shawl

Museum number:
5-16697
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa, Ghana, Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 49.5 centimeters and length 174 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16697, described as Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16697, described as Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16697, described as Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16697, described as Kente cloth shawl; 5 narrow strips sewn together to form a shawl with fringes on each end (blue). colors include golden yellow, green, dark red, royal blue, black and white. alternating patterns of basket like design, colored stripes and solid blue sections.

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