Matting Fragment

2003-32-125

From: New Hebrides

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-125
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides
Section Oceanian
Description

Strip of pandanus (?) matting, dyed reddish brown with diamond and chevron patterns. Wider, finished end has fringed edges and decorative rows of small holes. Other end appears to have been cut. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Length 44.5 cm
Width 15.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1994.X.11432 - Other Number | 15837 - Other Number

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