Object Number | 2003-72-401 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Senegal |
Section | African |
Materials | Leather | Cloth |
Technique | Tanned | Stained | Appliqued | Sewn | Painted | Embroidered |
Description | A long harness trimming consisting of four pieces of leather sewn together with a rounded wide tab attached on either end to which narrow looped straps are sewn; a blue cotton cloth covers the front attached by a leather binding on three sides; the fourth side is finsihed with a leather fringe; the cloth is decorated with large square cut appliques of white and dark brown leather with triangular cut outs; there are two long white decorated strips alonf each side; the back is undecorated. |
Length | 174 cm |
Width | 30 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1900.1.237 - Other Number |
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