Cloth

Textile

2003-70-73

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-70-73
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Nigeria
Section African
Materials Raffia | Cotton | Pigment
Technique Woven | Dyed
Description

Rectangular cloth made of 30 three inch (7.6cm) strips woven of undyed cotton; piece dyed with indigo; one half had raffia stitching in design still in place; on the other half, the raffia had been removed to reveal the finished design; both ends unfinished.

Length 450.6 cm
Width 221.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1912.1.5 - Other Number

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