Textile

Museum number:
5-16685
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
woven textile, woven on a narrow loom. ground of purple with a center stripe of verigated blue narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine, white, horizontal like stripes every 1.7 cm. Conservation: New, never used.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Oyo
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
clothing construction
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 9.5 centimeters and length 2160 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-16685, described as woven textile, woven on a narrow loom. ground of purple with a center stripe of verigated blue narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine, white, horizontal like stripes every 1.7 cm. Conservation: New, never used.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-16685, described as woven textile, woven on a narrow loom. ground of purple with a center stripe of verigated blue narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine, white, horizontal like stripes every 1.7 cm. Conservation: New, never used.

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