Textile
- Museum number:
- 5-16405
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016405
- Alternate number:
- B-1970 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1937-1938
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Textile samples
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- household
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 204 centimeters, fringe— length 16 centimeters, fringe— length 13 centimeters, and length 219 centimeters
- Comment:
- PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-7
- Images:
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