Textile

Museum number:
5-16400
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1890 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Yoruba woman's cloth. hand woven in a pattern of alternating lengthwise stripes of navy, ecru, and blue, each with a narrow ecru or navy stripe in the middle. fringed at both ends and finished with an embroidered narrow navy and ecru band. Oja Kejipa (weaver?)
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:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Household or clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
max— width 46.5 centimeters, fringes— length 15 centimeters, min— length 199 centimeters, and min— width 41.5 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-9
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Textile, accession number 5-16400, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. hand woven in a pattern of alternating lengthwise stripes of navy, ecru, and blue, each with a narrow ecru or navy stripe in the middle. fringed at both ends and finished with an embroidered narrow navy and ecru band. Oja Kejipa (weaver?)Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Textile, accession number 5-16400, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. hand woven in a pattern of alternating lengthwise stripes of navy, ecru, and blue, each with a narrow ecru or navy stripe in the middle. fringed at both ends and finished with an embroidered narrow navy and ecru band. Oja Kejipa (weaver?)Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Textile, accession number 5-16400, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. hand woven in a pattern of alternating lengthwise stripes of navy, ecru, and blue, each with a narrow ecru or navy stripe in the middle. fringed at both ends and finished with an embroidered narrow navy and ecru band. Oja Kejipa (weaver?)Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Textile, accession number 5-16400, described as Yoruba woman's cloth. hand woven in a pattern of alternating lengthwise stripes of navy, ecru, and blue, each with a narrow ecru or navy stripe in the middle. fringed at both ends and finished with an embroidered narrow navy and ecru band. Oja Kejipa (weaver?)

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