Towel

Museum number:
7-5368
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2391
Description:
cotton, gauze-like with woven horizontal pink stripes; woven border of pink, red, purple, yellow and green stripes; ends fringed; length 83 centimeters
Donor:
University Appropriation and William G. Lockwood
Collection place:
Odžak, Bugojno, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
William G. Lockwood
Collection date:
6/28/1967
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
Muslim; used as a towel and frequently given as gifts, as from bride to new in-laws
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
length 83 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 7-5368, described as cotton, gauze-like with woven horizontal pink stripes; woven border of pink, red, purple, yellow and green stripes; ends fringed; length 83 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Towel, accession number 7-5368, described as cotton, gauze-like with woven horizontal pink stripes; woven border of pink, red, purple, yellow and green stripes; ends fringed; length 83 centimeters

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