Tent wall or shelter wall
Tools
- Museum number:
- 9-23804
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090023804
- Alternate number:
- 151 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4812
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Wall for tent or shelter, hidim, is a piece of a much longer strip. It is in natural colors - gray, brown, and white - with orange and red (faded totally) over dye in plain weave in vertical stripe and dot/horizontal stripe pattern. It was cut off a large piece because I didn't have space to bring the whole piece. Made for self and used as a windbreak. Might have been used for human shelter before their houses were built, but more likely used for goat shelters. Z-ply, commercial dye used but unsure, 10 thread count per inch. Warp-faced plain weave.
- Donor:
- Joy Hilden
- Collection place:
- Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Shabaha, Saudi Arabia
- Culture or time period:
- Bedouin
- Collector:
- Joy Hilden
- Collection date:
- July 15, 1994
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 4. Structures and Furnishings
- Production date:
- c.1984 or older
- Accession date:
- October 15, 2019
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- whole— width 31 inches and whole— length 48 inches