Wrap

Cloth

Textile

2003-52-102

From: Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-52-102
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Congo
Section African
Materials Grass | Fiber | Pigment | Raffia
Technique Woven | Dyed
Description

Men's wrap around. Large rectangular cloth woven of raffia and amde in four panels, each with five small rectangular pieces, 19in (48.3cm) by 14in (35.5cm), also sewn together with brown raffia; each of the five cloths is each panel has several narrow brown warp stripes; 7in (18cm) twiste dfringe on all sides as well as between each of the four panels.

Length 242 cm
Width 145 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.455 - Other Number

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