Runner

Museum number:
5-16710
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016710
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.
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
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Runners (furniture coverings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
runner
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 40.5 centimeters, fringe— length 9.5 centimeters, length 181 centimeters, and maximum— width 49.5 centimeters
Comment:
badly stained
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 2 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 3 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 4 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 5 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 6 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.Hearst Museum object 7 of 7 titled Runner, accession number 5-16710, described as runner; woven runner, pile cloth weave alternated with plain weave bands. pale blue background w/ black, wine, green & white. fringed at each end. finished w/ a single band of rope twist black/white yarn.

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