Cloth

Textile

2003-70-70

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

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

Rectangular cloth made of twenty-four 3 inch strips of undyed cotton; one half of the piece has a design drawn on in ink; on the other half, the design has been sewn with raffia prior to dying; both ends infinished; one end has an area with blue warp yarns that stop soon and an area dyed blue; stitched.

Height 305.3 cm
Width 174 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1912.1.6 - Other Number

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