Textile

Museum number:

5-5311

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Alternate number:

[TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.2067

Description:

Contemporary cotton textile. Tiger hunt. Appliqued humans and tigers on black ground. 117.0 cm x 159.0 cm

Donor:

Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

Dahomey; Fon

Culture or time period:

Dahomey

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Textile samples

Function:

4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings

Accession date:

1965

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Comment:

Original # on object is “57”. Not a Bascom number. Appears to be a dealer number. Murdock 33:3; PAHMA Storage Loc: U-5-15

Loans:

S1966-1967 #4: Alex Nicoloff (August 18, 1966–August 22, 1966), S1967-1968 #132: Folklore Archives (UC Berkeley)/Kristi Wessenberg (April 30, 1968–June 5, 1968), and S1976-1977 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Francine Marshall (March 8, 1977–March 9, 1977)

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