Textile
AF1538
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1538 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bapende | Bapindi |
| Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | Dark fiber pile cloth. Decorated with reddish-brown embroidered diamonds; snake-like lines run through center. Fiber fringe on bottom, left and right sides. Dog-earing of fiber in bottom right, top right and top left portions. Bottom center portion has hole. Horizontal creasing, warping of fiber from rolling and shrinking in of top right portion. Darkening of fiber in top right portion. |
| Length | 77 cm |
| Width | 69 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 325 - Other Number |
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