bag
- Museum number
- Af.8690
- Description
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Bag of woven fibre, magenta and pale buff with a fringe and with diamond-shaped patterns.
- Production date
- 1872 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 35 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Acquired with no provenance; a later suggestion is Loango.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair - some thinning and loss of pattern.
- Acquisition date
- 1872 (28 October)
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by A W Franks from Umlauff in Hamburg in 1872 and given by him to the British Museum on 28 October 1872.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.8690
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1872C1.8690 (old CDMS no.)