Textile

Museum number:
5-15893
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4
Accession number:
Acc.4660
Description:
Cloth, Kente; rectangular, with fringe at ends; polychrome bands running in transverse and longitudinal directions; strips stitched together to form entire cloth; length 188 centimeters X width 112 centimeters.
Donor:
Diane Wedner and Ron Ziskin
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
West Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
December 8, 1994
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15893, described as Cloth, Kente; rectangular, with fringe at ends; polychrome bands running in transverse and longitudinal directions; strips stitched together to form entire cloth; length 188 centimeters X width 112 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15893, described as Cloth, Kente; rectangular, with fringe at ends; polychrome bands running in transverse and longitudinal directions; strips stitched together to form entire cloth; length 188 centimeters X width 112 centimeters.

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