Textiles

Museum number:
5-4353a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21054353a@2cb
Alternate number:
106 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2037
Description:
a) white cotton strip in plain weave; width 11.5 cm. b) blue loth tie string; loop 34 cm. length single. Made by men (oupai weaving); acquired from an old man at a market day who was wearing it on his shoulder; probably an article of commerce. Collected 10/1964.
Donor:
Paul Hinderling and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mokolo, North Region, Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Cameroon; Ouzal (near Mokolo); Mafa tribe (Murdock's 13:39 Mofu [Muffo])
Culture or time period:
Mafa tribe
Collector:
Paul Hinderling
Collection date:
October 1964
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textiles, accession number 5-4353a,b, described as a) white cotton strip in plain weave; width 11.5 cm. b) blue loth tie string; loop 34 cm. length single. Made by men (oupai weaving); acquired from an old man at a market day who was wearing it on his shoulder; probably an article of commerce. Collected 10/1964.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textiles, accession number 5-4353a,b, described as a) white cotton strip in plain weave; width 11.5 cm. b) blue loth tie string; loop 34 cm. length single. Made by men (oupai weaving); acquired from an old man at a market day who was wearing it on his shoulder; probably an article of commerce. Collected 10/1964.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textiles, accession number 5-4353a,b, described as a) white cotton strip in plain weave; width 11.5 cm. b) blue loth tie string; loop 34 cm. length single. Made by men (oupai weaving); acquired from an old man at a market day who was wearing it on his shoulder; probably an article of commerce. Collected 10/1964.

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