Object Number | 2003-70-71 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Nigeria |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton |
Technique | Woven | Dyed |
Description | Rectangular cloth woven with purple, tan and white yarns in a warp striped pattern; the tan stripes alternate narrow, wide, narrow, wide across purple background with seven in all, not including a portion of a wide stripe at one selvedge; the wide stripes have areas of brocade design within them; 5.5 inch fringes, purple loose and the tan and white are partially twisted; yarn dyed. |
Length | 115.5 cm |
Width | 43.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1912.1.3 - Other Number |
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