Object Number | 2003-70-58 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Nigeria |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton |
Technique | Woven | Dyed |
Description | Rectangular muslin cloth made in twelve 2 1/4 in. strips woven in a gauze weave with blue and white cotton warp stripes; small twisted fringes on both ends. This type of cloth would be worn as a skirt or wrap-around. The yarn-dyed threads are very loosely woven. |
Length | 127.5 cm |
Width | 67 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1912.1.16 - Other Number |
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