Textile

Museum number:
5-7288
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
64b (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2456
Description:
textile; cotton; plain weave 2-warp, 2-weft; tan, black & blue; light blue & black warp stripes; fringed ends; l. 25 cm. (2 pieces stitched together were separated to have 2 specimens; see 5-7281)
Donor:
Dave Radmore
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Dave Radmore
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
men weave long narrow strips of cloth to cut & sew together to make gowns, trousers, hats. to be used as traveling teaching exhibit for Bay Area grammar and high schools.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
(Murdock 31:31)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-7288, described as textile; cotton; plain weave 2-warp, 2-weft; tan, black & blue; light blue & black warp stripes; fringed ends; l. 25 cm. (2 pieces stitched together were separated to have 2 specimens; see 5-7281)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Textile, accession number 5-7288, described as textile; cotton; plain weave 2-warp, 2-weft; tan, black & blue; light blue & black warp stripes; fringed ends; l. 25 cm. (2 pieces stitched together were separated to have 2 specimens; see 5-7281)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-7288, described as textile; cotton; plain weave 2-warp, 2-weft; tan, black & blue; light blue & black warp stripes; fringed ends; l. 25 cm. (2 pieces stitched together were separated to have 2 specimens; see 5-7281)

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