Textile

Museum number:
5-16706
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Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Africa; Nigeria; Iwsan(?)
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1988
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
unknown
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Textile, accession number 5-16706, described as fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Textile, accession number 5-16706, described as fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Textile, accession number 5-16706, described as fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Textile, accession number 5-16706, described as fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Textile, accession number 5-16706, described as fabric panel composed of 7 narrow loom strips sewn together. basted hem on one non-selvage end. maroon ground, with a metallic gold stripe down the middle of each panel and supplementary weft float pattern of ivory silk. maroon panels further decorated a periodic sections of wrapping threads floated on the surface.

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