Cloth

Textile

2003-70-71

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

View All (4) Object Images

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

Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.