Textile

Museum number:
5-15854
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4619
Description:
Cloth, kente. Consists of 14 - 9.3cm W strips machine sewn together. Blue warp with weft-faced and supplementary weft repeating patterns in yellow, red, green, orange, white, and black. All warp ends ravelled. Attached tag reads “AWP 1976 - #7 - kente cloth - purchased Mar - Palime at Togo - John Sabah’s 'weaving factory’ “. 188cm x 122.5cm.
Donor:
Ann Palmer
Collection place:
Togo
Verbatim coll. place:
Togo. Ashanti. Purchased in John Sabah’s weaving studio in Palime, Togo.
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Collector:
Ann Palmer
Collection date:
1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Weft [reassign]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
December 23, 1993
Context of use:
Cloth, kente.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15854, described as Cloth, kente. Consists of 14 - 9.3cm W strips machine sewn together. Blue warp with weft-faced and supplementary weft repeating patterns in yellow, red, green, orange, white, and black. All warp ends ravelled. Attached tag reads “AWP 1976 - #7 - kente cloth - purchased Mar - Palime at Togo - John Sabah’s 'weaving factory’ “. 188cm x 122.5cm.

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