Object Number | 2003-52-107 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Congo |
Section | African |
Materials | Grass Fiber | Pigment |
Technique | Non-woven | Twined | Dyed |
Description | A skirt of brown grass fiber dyed red in several areas; the fibers are knotted onto a twined cord in four groups, a long group of fiber at either end with two short groups toward the middle; on one end of the cord fibers extend as loosely wrapped group and then are twined and knotted, while the other end is twined and knotted. |
Length | 42 cm |
Width | 146.1 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1953.1.5 - Other Number |
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