Cloth

Textile

2003-70-60

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-70-60
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Nigeria
Section African
Materials Cotton
Technique Woven | Sewn | Dyed
Description

Rectangular cloth made of twenty (6 cm) strips woven of blue cotton with white stripes in the warp and weft creating a checkered effect. Both ends have a (6.7 cm) strip of woven undyed cotton running along the width of piece; at one end, the last two strips on one side extend (26cm) beyond the end of the piece, the ends of these strips are unhemmed.

Length 220 cm
Width 124.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1912.1.18 - Other Number

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