bag
- Museum number
- Af1818,1114.26
- Description
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Fringed bag; made of leather; trapezoid shaped bag decorated with two bands of dark brown leather stitched with white, fringe hanging from bottom band, with three larger fringes with alternating dark and light stripes; rounded flap folds over top of bag with fringe around bottom edge with five thicker fringes with alternating dark and light stripes; top of flap appliquéd with band of dark brown around outside edge accented with white and yellow triangles, dark brown band across top accented with red diamonds, dark brown square with white diamond at centre, smaller square in each corner with red diamond at centre; loop of braided leather sewn in each top corner, accented with brown and white braiding.
- Production date
- 1817 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 56 centimetres
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Width: 37 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G1/fc24)
- Condition
- Leather slightly worn at bottom of back of bag.
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- Af1818,1114.1 to 42 is the collection made by Thomas Edward Bowdich while a member of the British embassy to the Asante court in Kumase in 1817, which he gave to the BM the following year. He refers to many of the objects in his account, 'Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee', 1819. Af1818,1114.26 to 29 form a section on leather. This must belong to the item listed as "Bags manufactured and dyed in Dagwumba" in the list that Bowdich supplied in 1818, which was annotated in 1845 with "(one only)".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1818,1114.26
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Af,N/N.149
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Miscellaneous number: Af1973,Q.1012
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Miscellaneous number: Af1979,01.549