Mat

Textile

2003-73-24

From: Sierra Leone

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-73-24
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sierra Leone
Section African
Materials Raffia
Technique Woven | Dyed
Description

A small rectangular mat with rounded edges, woven with brown, red, yellow and tan raffia in a warp striped pattern; two wide tan stripes by the selvedges and three wide brown stripes with two wide areas of alternating narrow brown, red, and yellow stripes in between; light brown raffia sewn around edges; yarn dyed.

Length 22.2 cm
Width 16.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1921.2.14 - Other Number

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