textile;
barkcloth
- Museum number
- Af1896,1224.14
- Description
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Textile, a dress or cloak of red-brown bark-cloth, covered with bands of geometric patterns in black dye.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Length: 188 centimetres
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Width: 200.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Slip reads:
Dress or cloak of red-brown bark-cloth covered with designs painted in black. The designs are applied in long horizontal bands of diagonal parallel black lines; similar lines arranged as interlocking triangles; divided into squares, the parallel lines forming each square being at right angles to those forming the squares on either side. There are also:
1. a band of elongated black lozenges, one end changing into black triangles placed point to point.
2. a band of small circles and horse-shoes.
3. a band of hatched work forming the border
4. a band at the opposite end consisting of parallelograms of parallel black lines and dog hatched work alternating with each other.
Kiganda dress as worn by chiefs in the time of King Mutesa.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor; friable, some sections split or missing/detached.
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Acquisition notes
- Af1896,1224.1 to 20 were given by the Rev. John Roscoe, who worked for the CMS in Uganda from 1884-1909. All the objects come from Uganda, and are listed as from the Kiganda or Baganda, but are entered as Baganda.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1896,1224.14