Blue, Red & White 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: Strip woven cloth, made of 14 strips sewn together at the selvedges. Handwoven with single-ply Z-spun cotton thread. Weft faced plain weave. Ground is white, with wide blue and narrow red weft stripes. Areas of eccentric (diagonal) wefts, creating zig-zag / triangle pattern. One end has short twisted fringe, the other is hemmed. One corner embroidered "SBP" in blue. Very similar to E432147 and E432148.
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: E432149-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Textile
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 208 cm
label: Width
content: 172 cm