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2003-48-49B

Location: On Display in the Into the Blue: The Pursuit of Color

From: Benin

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-48-49B
Current Location Into the Blue: The Pursuit of Color - On Display
Provenience Benin
Section African
Materials Cotton | Pigment
Technique Spun | Dyed
Description

Homespun dark blue thread, Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900. Dipped in indigo twice.

Length 51 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1994.X.9726 - Other Number

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