Cloth

Textile

2003-70-75

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-70-75
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Nigeria
Section African
Materials Cotton | Pigment
Technique Woven | Dyed
Description

Rectangular cloth made of fourteen 2 1/2" (6.4cm) strips woven in a gauze weave od undyed cotton; resist dyed to produce pattern of a large oval blue area in the center, four blue triangles on the sides, and both ends are blue; 2" (5cm) twisted fringe on both ends.

Length 223.52 cm
Width 93.98 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1912.1.7 - Other Number

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