Object Number | 2003-73-20 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Sierra Leone |
Section | African |
Materials | Raphia |
Technique | Woven | Dyed |
Description | A small rectangular mat with rounded edges, woven with dark brown, light brown, yellow, and tan raphia in a warp striped pattern; three wide stripes of tan and yellow, two wide stripes made up of alternating light and dark brown narrow stripes, and wider alternating light and dark brown stripes by either selvedge. Tan raphia is sewn around the edges. |
Length | 31.2 cm |
Width | 24.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1921.2.17 - Other Number |
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