Textile

Museum number:
5-16707
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1971 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Ife
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
Unknown; gift from "rufus" to donor, apparent used as a wall hanging or curtain.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 147 centimeters and length 199 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Textile, accession number 5-16707, described as 13 narrow loomed strips of loomed 'fancy' cloth weaving joined to form a large panel. brown ground with 4 bands of blue and white pinstripe overlaid with supplementary weft float which does not show on the back woven with ivory yarn.

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