FMNH 221415.nosub[1]

  • 221415 cotton cloth
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    Description: Reference image, overall view in storage
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    Scanner: Aidan Hercules : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Chicago Natural History Museum - Ethnology | 22-55 | Provenience: Africa. Western Nigeria. | People or Culture: Yoruba, (Probably Ibadan) | Object: Preliminary stage in starch resist dyeing. | Material: Imported cotton cloth, cassava starch. | Description: Oblong cloth divided into rectangular sectio [card cut off] sections painted with cassava starch in phytomorphic motives and geometric and geometric motives. | Dimensions: (in cm.) L; 212.0 cm- W; 84.5 cm. | Collection: Purchased from Mr. Dan R. Aronson 15 October 1967. [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 221415 | Field No. | Neg. No. 2 | Acc. 2978 [BACK] 221415 | [PHOTOGRAPH]
Catalog Number: 221415.nosub[1]
Description: cloth (unfinished)
Materials: cotton, cassava starch
Cultural Attribution: Yoruba, Ibadan
Accession Number: [2978] D. R. Aronson (Purchase)
Accession Year: 1967
Collector/Source: Dan R. Aronson, Dan R. Aronson
EMu IRN: 1127409
GUID: e27f99e0-9fc8-4081-9ee6-827e910f3b35

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