Pile Cloth
Textile
AF1534
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF1534 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bapende | Bapindi |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Technique | Embroidered |
| Description | Dark-colored fiber pile cloth with red repeating diamond pattern. Outlined on top, left, and bottom in red string. Wavy double red line pattern runs vertically down center. Shrinkage in bottom left and top left sides. Loss of fiber strand pattern on right center side. See AF1527. |
| Length | 74 cm |
| Width | 74 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 251 - Original Number |
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