Shawl

Museum number:
5-15862
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
9 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4619
Description:
Cloth. Rectangular cloth, yellow warp, red weft with multicolored “crocodile, throne, 'bowl’, and fish” in supplementary weft. Warp ends ravelled. Black and white selvedge-to-selvedge stripes at each end. Attached tag reads, “#9 - Fon Palace weaving - cotton - red and yellow with inlaid crocodile- throne, bowl? - fish - Abomey, Dahomey - Palmer - 1976”. 190cm x 30cm
Donor:
Ann Palmer
Collection place:
Abomey, Republic of Benin
Verbatim coll. place:
Dahomey. Fon Palace, Abomey.
Culture or time period:
Fon
Collector:
Ann Palmer
Collection date:
1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Weft [reassign]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
December 23, 1993
Context of use:
Cloth.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 5-15862, described as Cloth. Rectangular cloth, yellow warp, red weft with multicolored “crocodile, throne, 'bowl’, and fish” in supplementary weft. Warp ends ravelled. Black and white selvedge-to-selvedge stripes at each end. Attached tag reads, “#9 - Fon Palace weaving - cotton - red and yellow with inlaid crocodile- throne, bowl? - fish - Abomey, Dahomey - Palmer - 1976”. 190cm x 30cm

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