Skirt

Textile

2003-52-107

From: Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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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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