bag
- Museum number
- 2015,2012.2
- Description
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Bag made of leather with attached outer cover. Inner rectangular bag has double flap closure and sheath-shaped compartment sewn onto bag's exterior surface. Outer flap decorated with tooling and linear patterns painted in black ink. Bottom edge of bag has numerous short and a few longer tassels. Two twisted leather strings attached to top of bag pass through outer cover to secure it. Outer cover made from black-dyed leather, tooled on front surface. Decorated with pale green-dyed leather with cut outs revealing red cotton ? cloth below. Further applied and sewn inserts in white and yellow-dyed leather. Tassels and edge binding in red-, yellow- and green-dyed ? synthetic wool. Back of cover has strip of red-dyed leather along full length of cover sewn at top and bottom.
- Production date
- 20thC(mid) (pre 1972)
- Dimensions
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Height: 119.90 centimetres (Strap extended)
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Width: 20.10 centimetres
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Depth: 4.30 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 2015
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by the donor from a craftsman working at the Kaduna Museum (Nigeria) crafts centre in 1972.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2015,2012.2
