Textile
AF1493
From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | AF1493 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Bapindi | Bushoong | Bangongo |
Provenience | Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo |
Section | African |
Materials | Fiber |
Technique | Embroidered |
Description | Natural color fiber pile cloth. Rough waft. Decorated with brown and tan rectangle and diagonal line designs. Three vertical and a horizontal brown line form eight rectangles. Crocking of brown fiber dyestuff onto tan fiber. Fading of brown to green in bottom right and top right sections, left side. Piece is loosley woven except for nine cm of tightly woven material found at the top, which has left corner torn out. Appears to have been stitched onto rougher waft. |
Length | 72 cm |
Width | 58 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
Other Number | 1337 - Other Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.