Textile

Museum number:
5-15263
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015263
Accession number:
Acc.4428
Description:
Cloth. Commercial print, dark blue and green. Floral border print around a green centerfield which holds larger flowers. Selvage is marked "MWATEX KHANGA Des. no 791". 332 centimeters long by 117.6 centimeters wide. Materials: cotton, printed pattern.
Donor:
Joan Wescott
Collection place:
Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanzania
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
July 25, 1989
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15263, described as Cloth. Commercial print, dark blue and green. Floral border print around a green centerfield which holds larger flowers. Selvage is marked "MWATEX KHANGA Des. no 791". 332 centimeters long by 117.6 centimeters wide. Materials: cotton, printed pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15263, described as Cloth. Commercial print, dark blue and green. Floral border print around a green centerfield which holds larger flowers. Selvage is marked "MWATEX KHANGA Des. no 791". 332 centimeters long by 117.6 centimeters wide. Materials: cotton, printed pattern.

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