[TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1660
Description:
Baule cloth; probably female wrap-around or toga; Dark blue ground; partial IKAT. Silk brocade decoration; war stripes. L = 8.0’, W = 64.0” (excludes fringes); cotton with varicolored silk brocade geom. designs in squares.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Ivory Coast; Bouake Market (pro. woven in area around Tiebissou; Baule)
Culture or time period:
Baule
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
October 1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 1.63 meters and length 2.44 meters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-6-4
Loans:
S1967-1968 #49: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (October 31, 1967–January 8, 1968) and S1974-1975 #50: San Jose State University (January 21, 1975–February 19, 1975)