Textile

Pile Cloth

AF1669

From: Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF1669
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Dumbi | Dumba (uncertain)
Provenience Zaire | Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Fiber
Technique Embroidered
Description

Pile cloth. Ground color is a faded black with white embroidery-geometric shapes. Red-brown satin on left side. bleeding of tan dyestuff onto cloth. Fraying of right bottom corner, dogearing of bottom left corner. Shrinkage of all sides. Delamination of fiber in left section.

Length 57.5 cm
Width 11 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 1008 - Field No SF

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