Saddle bag

Museum number:
9-23735
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
31 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4812
Description:
Donkey saddle bag. Tightly woven, neat work in typical Jordanian style. Plain weave in dark green, maroon, and black with white skip-stripe. Weft-twined decorative flap 5" wide on each bag, with 10" weft-twined bands. Flap appears to be sewn on and has goat hair warp. 3 goat hair tassels sewn on bottom of each bag. Loose threads edging used to sew bottoms, sides, and tops of bags. Yarn used for it shines likes a synthetic. S-ply. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.
Donor:
Joy Hilden
Collection place:
Israel
Verbatim coll. place:
Berkeley, CA
Culture or time period:
Bedouin
Collector:
Joy Hilden
Collection date:
Late 1970s
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddlebags (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Production date:
Possibly made in 1960-1975
Accession date:
October 15, 2019
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole— length 47 inches and whole— width 15 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Saddle bag, accession number 9-23735, described as Donkey saddle bag. Tightly woven, neat work in typical Jordanian style. Plain weave in dark green, maroon, and black with white skip-stripe. Weft-twined decorative flap 5" wide on each bag, with 10" weft-twined bands. Flap appears to be sewn on and has goat hair warp. 3 goat hair tassels sewn on bottom of each bag. Loose threads edging used to sew bottoms, sides, and tops of bags. Yarn used for it shines likes a synthetic. S-ply. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Saddle bag, accession number 9-23735, described as Donkey saddle bag. Tightly woven, neat work in typical Jordanian style. Plain weave in dark green, maroon, and black with white skip-stripe. Weft-twined decorative flap 5" wide on each bag, with 10" weft-twined bands. Flap appears to be sewn on and has goat hair warp. 3 goat hair tassels sewn on bottom of each bag. Loose threads edging used to sew bottoms, sides, and tops of bags. Yarn used for it shines likes a synthetic. S-ply. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Saddle bag, accession number 9-23735, described as Donkey saddle bag. Tightly woven, neat work in typical Jordanian style. Plain weave in dark green, maroon, and black with white skip-stripe. Weft-twined decorative flap 5" wide on each bag, with 10" weft-twined bands. Flap appears to be sewn on and has goat hair warp. 3 goat hair tassels sewn on bottom of each bag. Loose threads edging used to sew bottoms, sides, and tops of bags. Yarn used for it shines likes a synthetic. S-ply. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Saddle bag, accession number 9-23735, described as Donkey saddle bag. Tightly woven, neat work in typical Jordanian style. Plain weave in dark green, maroon, and black with white skip-stripe. Weft-twined decorative flap 5" wide on each bag, with 10" weft-twined bands. Flap appears to be sewn on and has goat hair warp. 3 goat hair tassels sewn on bottom of each bag. Loose threads edging used to sew bottoms, sides, and tops of bags. Yarn used for it shines likes a synthetic. S-ply. Warp-faced plain weave, weft twining. 14 EPI thread count per inch.

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