Textile

AF1493

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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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

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