Textile

Museum number:
5-16397
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Alternate number:
B-1828 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Cover cloth, 3 strips of hand woven indigo fabric woven on a woman's loom stitched together lengthwise to form a single cloth. pattern is longitudinal stripes of navy and blue indigo accented with single thread white striped as visual offsets. finished with warp fringe hand stitched 5-strand band of dark and light blue along both ends. Conservation: Stained.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Household
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 245 centimeters, width 190 centimeters, and fringe— length 13 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-11
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-16397, described as Cover cloth, 3 strips of hand woven indigo fabric woven on a woman's loom stitched together lengthwise to form a single cloth. pattern is longitudinal stripes of navy and blue indigo accented with single thread white striped as visual offsets. finished with warp fringe hand stitched 5-strand band of dark and light blue along both ends. Conservation: Stained.

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