Textile

Museum number:
5-16471
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-2992 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Ashnati strip cloth. Khenti style, narrow loom woven strip with ecru base, yellow, green, maroon, black woven patterns of stripes and hourglass shapes. finished with warp fringe.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa, Ghana, Accra, Ashanti
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1960
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Clothing
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 9.5 centimeters, fringe— length 2.2 centimeters, and length 203 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: U-3-8
Loans:
S1962-1963 #73: Berkeley Recretion Department/Mary Berry (June 11, 1963–unknown) and S1965-1966 #15: Oakland Public Museum (September 16, 1965–November 10, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16471, described as Ashnati strip cloth. Khenti style, narrow loom woven strip with ecru base, yellow, green, maroon, black woven patterns of stripes and hourglass shapes. finished with warp fringe.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16471, described as Ashnati strip cloth. Khenti style, narrow loom woven strip with ecru base, yellow, green, maroon, black woven patterns of stripes and hourglass shapes. finished with warp fringe.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Textile, accession number 5-16471, described as Ashnati strip cloth. Khenti style, narrow loom woven strip with ecru base, yellow, green, maroon, black woven patterns of stripes and hourglass shapes. finished with warp fringe.

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