Textile

Museum number:
5-16401
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Alternate number:
B-1891 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Yoruba woman's cloth. cotton woman's cloth. woven, repeated white-indigo-white-navy pattern with narrow white strip in middle of indgo and navy stripes; narrow indigo strip in middle of white stripes. 25 cm wide navy border finished with warp fringe and sewn navy/white/navy band. .4 cm wide. Conservation: Burn hole 50 cm from one end. Fringe matted.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1937-1938
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Woman's cloth
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 176 centimeters, fringe— length 15 centimeters, and width 42.5 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-7
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16401, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. cotton woman's cloth. woven, repeated white-indigo-white-navy pattern with narrow white strip in middle of indgo and navy stripes; narrow indigo strip in middle of white stripes. 25 cm wide navy border finished with warp fringe and sewn navy/white/navy band. .4 cm wide. Conservation: Burn hole 50 cm from one end. Fringe matted.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16401, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. cotton woman's cloth. woven, repeated white-indigo-white-navy pattern with narrow white strip in middle of indgo and navy stripes; narrow indigo strip in middle of white stripes. 25 cm wide navy border finished with warp fringe and sewn navy/white/navy band. .4 cm wide. Conservation: Burn hole 50 cm from one end. Fringe matted.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16401, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. cotton woman's cloth. woven, repeated white-indigo-white-navy pattern with narrow white strip in middle of indgo and navy stripes; narrow indigo strip in middle of white stripes. 25 cm wide navy border finished with warp fringe and sewn navy/white/navy band. .4 cm wide. Conservation: Burn hole 50 cm from one end. Fringe matted.

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