Table cloth

Museum number:
5-16735
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Alternate number:
516735
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
white fabric cloth composed of 3 narrow loom panels joined together lengthwise. black and white narrow band at each end finished with self-fringes.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tablecloths
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Household
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 232 centimeters, fringe— length 15 centimeters, and width 172 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Table cloth, accession number 5-16735, described as white fabric cloth composed of 3 narrow loom panels joined together lengthwise. black and white narrow band at each end finished with self-fringes.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Table cloth, accession number 5-16735, described as white fabric cloth composed of 3 narrow loom panels joined together lengthwise. black and white narrow band at each end finished with self-fringes.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Table cloth, accession number 5-16735, described as white fabric cloth composed of 3 narrow loom panels joined together lengthwise. black and white narrow band at each end finished with self-fringes.

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