Textile sample

Museum number:
5-15463
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4502
Description:
Textile sample. 7 strips of fabric (17.5 centimeters wide) handstitched together. White ground with blue stripes and some red in 4 diamond designs and some stripes. Length 261 centimeters, width 121 centimeters. From Nigeria, Kano. Materials: handwoven cotton, indigo dye. Context of use: for clothing.
Donor:
Phyllis Ross Rutner
Collection place:
Kano, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria; Kano
Collection date:
1981
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile sample, accession number 5-15463, described as Textile sample. 7 strips of fabric (17.5 centimeters wide) handstitched together. White ground with blue stripes and some red in 4 diamond designs and some stripes. Length 261 centimeters, width 121 centimeters. From Nigeria, Kano. Materials: handwoven cotton, indigo dye. Context of use: for clothing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile sample, accession number 5-15463, described as Textile sample. 7 strips of fabric (17.5 centimeters wide) handstitched together. White ground with blue stripes and some red in 4 diamond designs and some stripes. Length 261 centimeters, width 121 centimeters. From Nigeria, Kano. Materials: handwoven cotton, indigo dye. Context of use: for clothing.

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