Cloth

Textile

2003-82-80

From: Africa

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-82-80
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Africa
Section African
Materials Cotton | Wood | Leather
Technique Woven | Sewn
Description

A rectangular cloth woven of white cotton with a red stripe border on each side and a red stripe near the bottom which ends in fringe; a small block of wood covered with cloth (amulet) is attached with thin leather strips tied through the side near the top; there is a wide hem sewn at the top.

Length 57.2 cm
Width 89.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1985.0.23 - Other Number

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