Textile

Museum number:
7-5406
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
294 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2391
Description:
Native name: jemenija Headscarf, black cotton with printed floral design in blue, green, red, yellow and white. 96 cm square. Worn by women (younger women use yellow or white instead of black) as a head covering. Tied under chin or at back of beah. Worn with or without "kapa". Made by urban craftsmen.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William G. Lockwood
Collection place:
Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Verbatim coll. place:
Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Sarajevo. Moslem
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
William G. Lockwood
Collection date:
Feb 1968
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 7-5406, described as Native name: jemenija Headscarf, black cotton with printed floral design in blue, green, red, yellow and white. 96 cm square. Worn by women (younger women use yellow or white instead of black) as a head covering. Tied under chin or at back of beah. Worn with or without "kapa". Made by urban craftsmen.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 7-5406, described as Native name: jemenija Headscarf, black cotton with printed floral design in blue, green, red, yellow and white. 96 cm square. Worn by women (younger women use yellow or white instead of black) as a head covering. Tied under chin or at back of beah. Worn with or without "kapa". Made by urban craftsmen.

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