Textile

37-22-55

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-55
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Cotton
Description

The ground is of the natural colour of the cotton fibre. The design includes bands and stripes of black; the cloth is bisected and bordered by wide bands of geometrical patterns of lozenges with single or multiple contours, and of zigzags- in black, red and black, yellow and black. The dyes are European.

Length 248 cm
Width 138 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 132 - Collector Number

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