Textile

Museum number:
5-16684
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
woven textile woven on narrow loom. ground at purple with a center stripe of verigated blue; narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine white horizontal stripes every 1.7cm. Conservation: New, never used.
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
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:
length 2144 centimeters and width 9.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-16684, described as woven textile woven on narrow loom. ground at purple with a center stripe of verigated blue; narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine white horizontal stripes every 1.7cm. Conservation: New, never used.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-16684, described as woven textile woven on narrow loom. ground at purple with a center stripe of verigated blue; narrow green stripe bisects each side, fine white horizontal stripes every 1.7cm. Conservation: New, never used.

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