textile;
mat
- Museum number
- Af,+.5728
- Description
-
Textile; mat; composed of multiple pieces hand sewn together; made of grass? probably raffia palm fibre; two natural and crimson tie-dyed panels flanking orange-dyed central panel; borders on two long sides composed of brown- and yellow- dyed stripes.
- Production date
- 1892 (before)
- Dimensions
-
Length: 184 centimetres
-
Width: 128 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- |The slip is annotated in pencil by A W Franks, 'Characteristic Manyema'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.5690 to 5766 is a group of objects from the Congo purchased from the Christy Fund on 11 May 1892. They had been collected by E L Hood in the Congo, and the database records the places or groups from which he had acquired them.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.5728
- Additional IDs
-
CDMS number: Af1892C2.5728 (old CDMS no.)