Ashanti cloth. narrow loom Khente cloth made up of 13 bands 8-9cm wide. 4 bands are traditional yellow, dark red, navy, green, hand loomed, separated by 1,2, or 3 bands of indigo and white. bands sewn together by hand.
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
Collection date:
1943
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
household, cleaning
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 220.2 centimeters and width 119 centimeters