Textile

Museum number:
5-15245
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4428
Description:
Baby wrapper. Red with black narrow warp stripes. Additional stripes and figures woven in white and yellow. 40 centimeters wide by 143 centimeters long with fringe. From Nigeria. Materials and technique: cotton, commercially spun, plain weave and inlay.
Donor:
Joan Wescott
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria attr.
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
July 25, 1989
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15245, described as Baby wrapper. Red with black narrow warp stripes. Additional stripes and figures woven in white and yellow. 40 centimeters wide by 143 centimeters long with fringe. From Nigeria. Materials and technique: cotton, commercially spun, plain weave and inlay.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-15245, described as Baby wrapper. Red with black narrow warp stripes. Additional stripes and figures woven in white and yellow. 40 centimeters wide by 143 centimeters long with fringe. From Nigeria. Materials and technique: cotton, commercially spun, plain weave and inlay.

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