Textile fragments

Museum number:
5-11314a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210511314a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.2818
Description:
textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): both a & b have light blue ground, left stripe maroon with light blue selvage, right side & central ikat indogo & yellow, central flanked by narrow maroon stripe and light blue with black pin stripe.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Oyo
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
February-April 1951
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
January 24, 1972
Context of use:
Short section of cloth cut from a long length of fabric woven and ready for market. Made by professional male weaver on "horizontal narrow band treadle loom." Finished strips are then cut and sewn into garments by tailor. Samples collected in marketplace, weavers compounds, and some with the help of a Yoruba master weaver. A duplicate set was made for the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 30.2 centimeters, (a)— width 9 centimeters, and (a)— 9.2 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile fragments, accession number 5-11314a,b, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): both a & b have light blue ground, left stripe maroon with light blue selvage, right side & central ikat indogo & yellow, central flanked by narrow maroon stripe and light blue with black pin stripe.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile fragments, accession number 5-11314a,b, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): both a & b have light blue ground, left stripe maroon with light blue selvage, right side & central ikat indogo & yellow, central flanked by narrow maroon stripe and light blue with black pin stripe.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragments, accession number 5-11314a,b, described as textile sample (section of narrow band weaving): both a & b have light blue ground, left stripe maroon with light blue selvage, right side & central ikat indogo & yellow, central flanked by narrow maroon stripe and light blue with black pin stripe.

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