Head Cloth
Sash
Textile
| Object Number: | 2003-63-84 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Liberia |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Cotton Dye |
| Technique: | Woven Dyed |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number: | 1894.1.16 - Other Number |
Description
A rectangular dark blue cotton headcloth or sash of an open weave design with a two inch border around one edge decorated with small pom poms; long braided cords ending with small pom pom tassels decorate both of the narrower sides.
Bibliography:
| [Article] Latimer, Dwaune D. 2015. "The People & Products of Colonization: Africa at the Chicago and Paris Expositions". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 57. no. 1. pg. 22-26 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 23 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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