Cloth

Museum number:
5-2970
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1717
Description:
Tie-dyed cloth; Beke; blue ground with white bands; used as women's wrapper, worn around waist.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Af.; Nigeria; Tiv; Ihugh Market
Culture or time period:
Tiv
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #21: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Miriam Plotnicov (September 27, 1965–November 30, 1965), S1966-1967 #61: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Ruth Boyer (January 25, 1967–February 14, 1967), and S1967-1968 #113: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Miriam Plotnicov (April 3, 1968–April 30, 1968)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cloth, accession number 5-2970, described as Tie-dyed cloth; Beke; blue ground with white bands; used as women's wrapper, worn around waist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cloth, accession number 5-2970, described as Tie-dyed cloth; Beke; blue ground with white bands; used as women's wrapper, worn around waist.

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