Textile sample
- Museum number:
- 5-10917
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050010917
- Accession number:
- Acc.4428
- Description:
- textile sample (section of narrow band weaving). dark blue background with two purple bands bordered by lt. blue borders, W 10.2 cm x L 5.1 cm
- Donor:
- Joan Wescott
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Joan Wescott
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Textile samples
- Function:
- 8.3 For Manufacturing
- Accession date:
- July 25, 1989
- Context of use:
- short section of cloth cut from a long length of fabric woven and ready for market. made by professional male weaver on horizontal narrow band treadle loom. finished strips are then cut and sewn into garments by tailor. samples collected in marketplace, weavers' compounds, and some with the help of a Yoruba master weaver. a duplicate set was made for the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 'popo eleeko' - road to Eleko's Palace
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 10.2 centimeters and length 5.1 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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