Cloth

Textile

2003-66-1

From: Mali

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-66-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mali
Section African
Materials Cotton
Technique Woven | Dyed
Description

Rectangular cloth made of twelve 4.5 inch (11.5 cm) strips with white and blue warp stripes; stripes are closely matched, giving checkerboard effect; brocaded designs in some of the stripes; ends are unhemmed; yarn dyed. Cloth possibly for tent.

Length 345.4 cm
Width 139 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.408 - Other Number

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