Cloth

2016-20-39

From: Philippine Islands (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2016-20-39
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Philippine Islands (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Banana Fiber
Description

Length of banana fiber (?) cloth, bold dark red, yellow and cream colored plaid, from same piece as 2016-20-38. Handwritten sewn-on label on 2016-20-38: "Grass Cloth / Used to cover walls and for hanging at doorways." Displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904.

Length 116.1 cm
Width 50.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016

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