Shawl

Museum number:
5-16708
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
silk (?) shawl; grosgrain weave with blue and green 5.5cm band separated by 1.5cm yellow bands decorated with supplementary weft float of yellow in each blue/green stripe. finished with 13cm warp fringe on each end.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Northern Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Africa
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Silk and Synthetic
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 244.5 centimeters and width 57 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16708, described as silk (?) shawl; grosgrain weave with blue and green 5.5cm band separated by 1.5cm yellow bands decorated with supplementary weft float of yellow in each blue/green stripe. finished with 13cm warp fringe on each end.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16708, described as silk (?) shawl; grosgrain weave with blue and green 5.5cm band separated by 1.5cm yellow bands decorated with supplementary weft float of yellow in each blue/green stripe. finished with 13cm warp fringe on each end.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Shawl, accession number 5-16708, described as silk (?) shawl; grosgrain weave with blue and green 5.5cm band separated by 1.5cm yellow bands decorated with supplementary weft float of yellow in each blue/green stripe. finished with 13cm warp fringe on each end.

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