Object Number | 2003-73-18 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Sierra Leone |
Section | African |
Materials | Raphia |
Technique | Woven | Braided | Dyed |
Description | Rectangular black and tan hammock with eleven braided sections in the warp direction and twelve woven sections each 7/8 in. (2.3cm) wide in the weft; black tassels attached at either end and in the center of each woven weft section; 12 in. (30.5cm) fringe forms long loops at both ends of hammock. |
Length | 224.5 cm |
Width | 85 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.439 - Other Number |
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