Textile fragment

Museum number:
5-11349
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-349
Accession number:
Acc.2818
Description:
textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): blue and white silk or rayon brocade in a zig-zag pattern.
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
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 12.7 centimeters and length 80.9 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 5-11349, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): blue and white silk or rayon brocade in a zig-zag pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 5-11349, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): blue and white silk or rayon brocade in a zig-zag pattern.

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