Object Number | 2003-52-97 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Congo |
Section | African |
Materials | Raffia | Cotton |
Technique | Woven | Dyed |
Description | A rectangular piece made of four panels of pile fabric, varying in width, sewn together with a narrow plain weave section attached in between, like "borders." Three of the panels are made up of two or three small pile fabrics sewn together. All of the pile fabrics have a triangle or diamond motif. Woven pile; natural and yarn dyed dark brown, light brown, and yellow; "velvet" cloth. |
Length | 62.2 cm |
Width | 29.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1985.0.34 - Other Number | AE.366 - Other Number |
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