Brown & Yellow Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2005
label: Collection Date
content: Late 1850s
name: label: Collector
content: John S. Brooks
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Candace Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: Patterned cloth, made of 15 strips sewn together at the selvedges. Handwoven with handspun single-ply Z-spun cotton thread. Ground cloth is light tan color, balanced plain weave. Several bands of black and brown geometric patterns (woven in continuous supplementary weft patterning), carefully spaced on the strips so that when the strips are sewn together, they line up and extend across the width of the fabric. There are also several blocks of a dotted line pattern that extend across only 2 or 3 strips. Finally, various motifs scattered over the cloth, some geometric (triangles, chevrons, Xs) and others possibly natural (fish?, frog?, leaves?). These are woven into the fabric with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning in black thread. Ends are unfinished.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Nov 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2029672
label: USNM Number
content: E432143-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 423 cm
label: Width
content: 179 cm